Yiddish and Power

1. A Yiddish Romance with Powerlessness

1. A Yiddish Romance with Powerlessness
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I. Old Yiddish in Western Ashkenaz

2. Gentile Culture Empowers Simple Jews
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3. Power of the Printing Press
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4. Women of Western Ashkenaz
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5. The Neo-Religious and the Jewish-Secular
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6. Power Shifts: West→East, Earlier→Later, Secular→Religious
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7. Women (and Men) of Eastern Ashkenaz
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8. Religious Theories of Yiddish
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II. Transition in the West

9. Anti-Semitism Targets Yiddish
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10. German-Jewish Enlightenment also Targets Yiddish
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III. Rise in the East

11. Religious Power
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12. Secular Power
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13. Party Politics
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IV. Modernity

14. Interwar Encounters with Official Status
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15. Yiddishless Yiddish Power vs Powerless Yiddish
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Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Middle Eastern Culture, Linguistics, general, Social History, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis