单词 | Yiddishist |
释义 | ˈYiddishist, n. (a.) [f. Yiddish n. (a.) + -ist.] An adherent or supporter of Yiddishism (sense a); spec., an advocate of the exclusive use of Yiddish by Jews. Also, a student of Yiddish language or literature. Also attrib. or as adj.
1917Edin. Rev. Apr. 310 Russian Jewry rang for a time with the bitter controversy of the so-called Hebraists and Yiddishists. The Yiddishists..won... In 1903..Yiddish was solemnly proclaimed the Jewish national language. 1933B'nai B'rith Mag. XLVIII. 32/3 What will the Yiddishists..say to this? 1964S. Bellow Herzog 108 Her father had been..a member of the Arbeiter-Ring, a Yiddishist. 1970Language XLVI. 938 The title of this book [sc. The Field of Yiddish] suggests that it is primarily of interest to Yiddishists. 1971Encycl. Judaica X. 62/2 The Yiddish movement which came at the beginning of the 20th century, laid the accent on Yiddish as the spoken and living language of the vast majority of world Jewry. 1972H. Kemelman Monday Rabbi took Off xlvii. 276 ‘My husband was a Yiddishist,’ said Gittel stiffly, ‘He did not speak the language out of principle.’ 1976I. B. Singer in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 62 The leftist Yiddishists tried to identify Yiddish with the social revolution... Russia had promised its Jews a Yiddishist cultural autonomy. 1982Lang. Problems & Lang. Planning VI. ii. 208 Yiddishists apply the term [Yiddish] retroactively to all earlier stages of the language, until its very beginnings about a thousand years ago. |

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