{"product_id":"yiddish-a-nation-of-words-9781586420277","title":"Yiddish: A Nation of Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYiddish: A Nation of Words\u003c\/strong\u003e by Weinstein, Miriam. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781586420277.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first-ever popular history of Yiddish is so full of life that it reads like a biography of the language.\n\nFor a thousand years Yiddish was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In it they produced one of the worlds most richly human cultures.\n\nImpoverished and disenfranchised in the eyes of the world, Yiddish-speakers created their own alternate reality - wealthy in appreciation of the varieties of human behavior, spendthrift in humor, brilliantly inventive in maintaining and strengthening community. For a people of exile, the language took the place of a nation. The written and spoken word formed the Yiddishland that never came to be. Words were army, university, city-state, territory. They were a peoples home.\n\nThe tale, which has never before been told, is nothing short of miraculous - the saving of a people through speech. It ranges far beyond Europe, from North America to Israel to the Russian-Chinese border, and from the end of the first millenium to the present day. This book requires no previous knowledge of Yiddish or of Jewish history - just a curious mind and an open heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brand: Steerforth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255240384565,"sku":"ByrdShop_1586420275","price":24.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781586420277_36c156ce-50a5-478b-8ace-4c5898970e2d.jpg?v=1779925789","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yiddish-a-nation-of-words-9781586420277","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}