To cavalierly state that "Judeo-German [...] is German... but then again, so is Yiddish" throws out over a hundred years of scholarship, and a lotta books! Try telling it to the Yiddish teachers and chairs in universities all across the country -- not to mention the many librarians specializing in Yiddish.
For further information on the thousand year old language, and the keys to Jewish history and identity it contains, please look into the Encyclopedia Judaica or even the Encyclopedia Britannica for basic articles. Then check out (or even buy for your library!) the recent YIVO publications the Encyclopedia of Eastern European Jewry and the newly completed translation of Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language (in two volumes). Best regards, Shane Baker Director Congress for Jewish Culture 1133 Broadway Suite 1019 New York, NY 10010 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
