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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Case of the Tautological Infinitive
2. The Language of Jewish Discourse
3. Jewish Discourse and Modern Yiddish Poetry
4. Conversational Orchestration in the Tsenerene and Sholem Aleykhem
5. Y. L. Perets’s Conversational Art in Yiddish and Hebrew
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“A learned, sophisticated, and smart book. Its exploration of the complex interrelationship between elite conversational discourse and its transition and transformation in the mouths, minds, and words of others is vital for a more nuanced understanding of Yiddish, its speakers, and its writers.”
—Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University
