A three-day research conference on “Multilingualism and Social Change: Perspective on Yiddish” opened here last night at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, sponsored by the YIVO and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Yeshiva University.
The subjects for discussion range widely from such topics as Jewish influences on American English to bilingualism in Montreal; and from Yiddish and Arabic in old Palestine to successes and failures in the restoration of Irish. The conference is supported, in part, by a grant from the Committee on Sociolinguistics of the Social Science Research Council and by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
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