Yiddish Culture in Britain

Download or read book Yiddish Culture in Britain written by Leonard Prager and published by Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang. This book was released on 1990 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guide, a detailed one-volume reference work with alphabetically ordered entries, is a bio-bibliography of Yiddish culture in Britain, emphasising Jewish life lived-in-Yiddish and based largely on Yiddish sources. It views Yiddish culture in Britain as a small but vital segment of Ashkenazic life showing its lifelines from the Continent and to the New World. It documents the multiple relations which this culture has had with its surroundings, Jewish and non-Jewish. Wholly in English, it includes biographical, bibliographical, historical, linguistic, theatrical and other kinds of information, much of it unavailable elsewhere.