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Benjamin Harshav, The meaning of Yiddish. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xix + 205.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Rakhmiel Peltz
Rakhmiel Peltz
Affiliation:
Yiddish Studies Program, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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Language in Society , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 154 - 157
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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