[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Orthodox Jewish Attitudes towards the Yiddish Language in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Victor Bers victor.bers at yale.edu
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Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

January 29, 20100

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:04 -0500
From: Shaul Moshe Seidler-Feller <seidlerf at yu.edu>
Subject: Mendele Personal: Orthodox Jewish Attitudes towards the Yiddish 
Language in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:04 -0500
From: Shaul Moshe Seidler-Feller <seidlerf at yu.edu>
Subject:Orthodox Jewish Attitudes towards the Yiddish  Language in Late 
Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

Tayere Mendelyaner,

I am currently researching the differences in attitude, between Orthodox 
and non-Orthodox Jews and among different groups of Orthodox Jews, toward 
the Yiddish language in late 19th- and early 20th-century Eastern Europe. 
My hope is to analyze how various Jewish groups used the language 
differently to achieve their specific goals and whether Orthodox use in 
particular shifted with the rise of secular Hebraism and Yiddishism in 
this period. Did this pseudo-"loshn koydesh" lose favor in the eyes of the 
Orthodox once it became the linguistic medium of secular Yiddishists? I 
plan on addressing this and similar questions in my work.

One of the main types of primary sources I would like to look at is the 
publications of the Orthodox Yiddish presses of Eastern Europe. If any 
Mendelyaner have suggestions of which publications I might search for, or 
any other pertinent information, I would very much appreciate receiving 
them: seidlerf at yu.edu.

Thanks in advance for your help.

A gutn,
Shaul Seidler-Feller Yeshiva College,
Yeshiva University
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