Explorations in the history of the Semitic Component in Yiddish

Yiddish arose in Central Europe. Nevertheless, the language includes a Semitic Component comprising thousands of lexical items that is synchronically fused with the Germanic Component within Yiddish. Theories from the sixteenth century to the present have contended that Semitisms entered a previousl...

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Main Author: Katz, Dovid
Published: University College London (University of London) 1982
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243899