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Yiddish continues to interest both linguists and those among Russian Jews who prefer to stay in the country without being completely assimilated. Whether they will create another spoken variety of Yiddish or the Yiddish of their ancestors will be studied as a dead language, one thing is clear enough: no student of Soviet/Russian Yiddish will be able to do without Estraikh's book Studies in Language Estraikh's book is a timely publication, especially valuable since its author relies not only on a very comprehensive bibliography but also on first-hand information resulting from his (grand-)parents' experience, as well as his own Studies in Language I am impressed by the archival research that Gennady Estraikh put into his book and the care he has taken with his exposition. There is much here of interest and usefulness for sociolinguists of every variety Language in Society The differences in orthography and spelling strike the eye first, and Estraikh deals with these matters at length in Soviet Yiddish; but his richly detailed and thoroughly documented account of every aspect of Soviet Yiddish shows that the visual eccentricities were the tip of the iceberg, and what a complex and absorbing a history there is here for the linguist, the sociolinguist, and the student of the politics of language Language in Society

Yiddish continues to interest both linguists and those among Russian Jews who prefer to stay in the country without being completely assimilated. Whether they will create another spoken variety of Yiddish or the Yiddish of their ancestors will be studied as a dead language, one thing is clear enough: no student of Soviet/Russian Yiddish will be able to do without Estraikh's book Studies in Language Estraikh's book is a timely publication, especially valuable since its author relies not only on a very comprehensive bibliography but also on first-hand information resulting from his (grand-)parents' experience, as well as his own Studies in Language I am impressed by the archival research that Gennady Estraikh put into his book and the care he has taken with his exposition. There is much here of interest and usefulness for sociolinguists of every variety Language in Society The differences in orthography and spelling strike the eye first, and Estraikh deals with these matters at length in Soviet Yiddish; but his richly detailed and thoroughly documented account of every aspect of Soviet Yiddish shows that the visual eccentricities were the tip of the iceberg, and what a complex and absorbing a history there is here for the linguist, the sociolinguist, and the student of the politics of language Language in Society

`The work is very solid, comprehensive, and magisterial. I cannot think of many questions about Soviet Yiddish that this book has not answered for me. Almost all the sources are either in Yiddish or Russian, and few linguists other than Estraikh - a former journalist in the Soviet Union, with native fluency in both Yiddish and Russian - could have brought this off. My hat is off to him' Language in Society, Vol.30, No.1 `I am impressed by the archival research that Gennady Estraikh put into his book and the care he has taken with his exposition. There is much here of interest and usefulness for sociolinguists of every variety' Language in Society, Vol.30, No.1 `The differences in orthography and spelling strike the eye first, and Estraikh deals with these matters at length in Soviet Yiddish; but his richly detailed and thoroughly documented account of every aspect of Soviet Yiddish shows that the visual eccentricities were the tip of the iceberg, and what a complex and absorbing a history there is here for the linguist, the sociolinguist, and the student of the politics of language' Language in Society, Vol.30, No.1

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