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Listening to the Languages of the People : Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French /

"This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lazăr Șăineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was a pioneer in his native Romania, s...

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Autor principal: Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Romania
  • Early Years: Studies and Friendships
  • The Field of Linguistics
  • First Publications
  • The Science of Judaism: Advancing Emancipation
  • Semasiology
  • Paris, Gaston Paris, and the Jours d'Emprunt
  • Leipzig and the Neogrammarians
  • Research on Yiddish
  • The Dialectological Study of Judeo-German
  • Spreading the Word on Yiddish
  • B.P. Hasdeu, Anti-Semitism, and Jewish Relations
  • University Lectures and New Books
  • V. A. Urechiă and the First Rejection of Naturalization
  • Favorable Reviews and Marriage
  • Basmele Române
  • The Basmele Wins a Prize
  • Second Defeat of Request for Naturalization
  • Self-Defense and Studies in Folklore
  • The Dicționar Universal
  • Non-Zionist Jew and His Circle of Friends
  • Paris, London: Gaster and Zionism
  • Paris: Nordau and Zionism
  • The Rejection of Zionism, the Dreyfus Affair
  • Baptism and Its Consequences
  • The Oriental Influence on Romanian Language and Culture
  • Șăineanu and Other Jews
  • The Last Months: Publication and Defeat
  • Repairing and Describing His Life: The Philological Career
  • Part Two: France
  • The New Émigre
  • Living and Making a Living
  • Some Translations
  • Judeo-German for the French Scholar
  • The Popular Languages of France
  • Rabelais
  • Les Sources Indigenes and Disappointment
  • Summing Up
  • Languages and "the People" in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Two Jewish Critics on Sainean's Life
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back cover