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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New York :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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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