Dear Friends,
With great good fortune I was able to buy out what
appears to be the remainder of the copies of one of the greatest works of
Jewish scholarship – Weinreich’s “History of the Yiddish Language,” in the
Second edition of the translation into English. In my description below you
will find a detailed description of the Second Edition and the significant
improvements made over the First edition. The Second clearly and completely
supersedes the First. I am able to offer copies to the Hasafran list at $100.00
postpaid within the US. Overseas shipping is an additional $50.00. “History of
the Yiddish Language was published at $300.00 and never discounted that I know
of. Now that Yale University Press has abandoned the book it is not likely to
reissued in this generation. I strongly recommend this book for all Jewish
libraries used by adults that do not have a copy of this edition.
All the best,
Henry Hollander
Weinreich, Max. “History of the Yiddish Language.” In Two Volumes. New Haven,
Yale University Press, Published in cooperation with the YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research, 2008. Second English language edition. ISBN:
978-0-300-10887-3. Octavos, blue cloth with gold lettering, xiv, 348, 357A pp.,
maps and tables, + vi, 349-733, 358A-988A pp., a few maps and figures,
cumulative index. Hardbound. Very Good. Translated by Shlomo Noble, with the
assistance of Joshua A. Fishman. With a new introduction to this edition by
Paul Glasser who edited this second edition. His introduction explains the many
differences between this edition and the previous one published by the
University of Chicago in one volume in 1980. I had always wondered how the four
volumes of the original Yiddish language edition had been squeezed into one
volume. In fact only small pieces of the extensive notes (Volumes three and
four) had appeared in the Chicago edition. Here there are presented in their
entirety (The pagination ending in A indicated the notes), nearly one thousand
pages. It is unclear whether the notes were translated by Joshua Fishman, Paul
Glasser or some other hand. The notes are translated with a more contemporary
eye to transliteration and are improved on where Weinreich's brevity in
notation was excessive. The original index prepared by Bella Hass Weinberg has
been revised and augmented by Nancy Zibman. Each volume includes an Appendix:
Parallel Paragraph numbering of Max Weinreich (1973): 'Geshikhte fun der
Yidisher Shprakh' and Max Weinreich (2008): 'History of the Yiddish Language,'
and a Select Bibliography of Max Weinreich's Works. (69271)
$100.00 postpaid within the US. Postage $50.00 on orders from outside the US.
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