Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-507).
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Old Yiddish literature -- Literature of the Enlightenment -- Mendele and his contemporaries -- Peretz and Sholom Aleichem -- Early Yiddish theater -- American lyric pioneers -- Yiddish ideologies -- The post-classical narrative -- The novel of young America -- Rise of literary criticism -- Soviet Yiddish literature -- Galician neoromanticism -- Novelists of Poland -- Poets of Warsaw -- New lyric voices in America -- Introspectivism -- American eclectics -- Minor European centers -- Yiddish in South Africa and Australia -- Yiddish in Latin America -- Young Vilna -- The Holocaust -- Aging of Yiddish -- Yiddish in Israel.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Beginning with the development of the language itself, the author traces the literature from the Middle Ages to the present throughout the Jewish world.