A People between Languages

Toward a Jewish History of Concepts

in Contributions to the History of Concepts
Author:
Guy Miron Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies guymiron@openu.ac.il

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3167/choc.2012.070201
Keywords:
assimilation; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment); Hebrew; Jewish press; Jewish secularization; Jews; multilingualism; Yiddish
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The field of modern European Jewish history, as I hope to show, can be of great interest to those who deal with conceptual history in other contexts, just as much as the conceptual historical project may enrich the study of Jewish history. This article illuminates the transformation of the Jewish languages in Eastern Europe-Hebrew and Yiddish-from their complex place in traditional Jewish society to the modern and secular Jewish experience. It presents a few concrete examples for this process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article then deals with the adaptation of Central and Western European languages within the internal Jewish discourse in these parts of Europe and presents examples from Germany, France, and Hungary.

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Cover Contributions to the History of Concepts
Article Category:
Research Article
Page Count:
27
Keywords:
assimilation; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment); Hebrew; Jewish press; Jewish secularization; Jews; multilingualism; Yiddish
Print Publication Date:
01 Dec 2012
Online Publication Date:
01 Dec 2012
Copyright:
© Berghahn Books 2012

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