Language Politics And Language Survival Yiddish Among the Haredim in Post-war Britain

"This book outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is used among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in contemporary Britain. The language policies of these communities are analysed and placed within the greater socio-historical and religious context of rabbinic justifications for the use of Jewish languages, and of Yiddish in particular. A brief sociological analysis of haredi literature in Yiddish is provided in order to demonstrate the ideological function of Yiddish language texts in contemporary Britain, and in the haredi world in general. The primary materials used for this are texts produced by, and published within, the haredi communities of Britain."--BOOK JACKET.Mitchell, Bruce is the author of 'Language Politics And Language Survival Yiddish Among the Haredim in Post-war Britain', published 2007 under ISBN 9789042917842 and ISBN 9042917849.