Yiddish -- Elly van Gelderen and Janet McConnell
Fall 1996
Reading
Weinreich's College Yiddish; Sholem Aleichem's Der grose gewins; short stories by I.B. Singer and Y.L. Peretz; articles in Forverts.
Writing
Exercises to practise writing; Greenspan
Listening
Yiddish tapes and songs.
Grammar
Weinreich; Katz; Santorini etc.
Some References
Linguistic:
den Besten, Hans & C. Moed-van Walraven. 1986. "The Syntax of Verbs in Yiddish", in H. Haider & M. Prinzholm: 111-135.
Diesing, Molly 1988. "Word Order and the Subject Position in Yiddish". NELS 18: 124-140.
Gold, E. 1994. "Head-Adjunction and Movement: Evidence from Yiddish" UoT Ms (quoted in Carnie 1995: 221ff.)
Prince, E. 1996. GLAC talk about Pro-drop.
Santorini, B. 1989. The Generalization of the Verb-second Constraint in the History of Yiddish. University of Pennsylvania PhD.
Santorini, B. 1995. "Two Types of Verb Second in the History of Yiddish", Clause Structure and Language Change edited by Adrian Battye and Ian Roberts, 53-79. New York - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Travis, L. 1984. Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation. MIT PhD.
Grammars:
Katz, Dovid. 1987. Grammar of the Yiddish Language. Duckworth.
Mark, Yudl. 1978. Gramatik fun der yidisher kll-shprak. New York: Alveltleker yidisher kultur-kongres.
Schaechter, M. Yidish Tsvei. 1993. New York: League for Yiddish.
Weinreich, Uriel 1949. College Yiddish. New York: YIVO. [1965 edition]
Dictionaries:
Weinreich, Uriel 1968. English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Socio/historical
Gold, David L. 1981. "The Speech and Writing of Jews" inC. Ferguson & S. Heath eds. Language in the USA. Cambridge: CUP.
Weinreich, M. 1973. Geschikhte fun der yidisher sprokh. New York: YIVO
Orthography
Greenspan, Jay Seth 1981. Hebrew Calligraphy. New York: Schocken.
Audio Tapes:
Yiddish. Washington: Educational Services Corporation. 1995.
Yiddish. Sheva Zucker. Durham, NC. 1995.
Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages. Zuckerman and Herbst. 1988.
Yiddish Songs: Miriam Dvorin; A Touch of Klez; Ruth Rubin; Partisans of Vilna; Alexandra Gorelik.
Newspapers/journals:
Afn Shvel, New York: League for Yiddish. (200 West 72nd St Ste 40, New York, NY 10023)
Forverts, New York: The Forward Association. (45 E 33rd St, New York, NY 10016; 212 889 8200)
Bookstores:
Arbeter Ring: 45 E 33rd St, NY 10016.
National Yiddish Book Center, Old east Street School, PO Box 969, Amherst, Mass. 01004.