A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818-1938 ceramic mug

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A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818-1938 ceramic mugBy Aya Elyada Stanford University Press Published in 2026 312 pages, 6 x 9 in Hardcover This book explores a unique and under researched chapter in German Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German speaking Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals with their Yiddish literary heritage. From the late eighteenth century onwards, as growing circles of the German Jewish population shifted from speaking Yiddish to German, the once popular early