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Miriam Isaacs

Academic Affiliation

• University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Contact Information

• Email: misaacs @ umd.edu

Research Interests

Yiddish Language and Culture, Language and Society, Languages of Haredim

• Isaacs. 2001. The Sociolinguistic Development of Yiddish: Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5: 97-108.
• Isaacs, 2000. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. In W. Bright (ed.), Language in Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ??-??.
• Isaacs, M. & Glinert, L. (eds.). 1999. Pious Voices: Languages among Ultra-orthodox Jews. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 138. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Isaacs, M. 1999. Haredi, Haymish and Frim: Yiddish Vitality and Language Choice in a Multilingual Community. In Isaacs & Glinert (1999), 9-30.
• Isaacs, M. 1999. Contentious Partners: Yiddish and Hebrew in Haredi Israel. In Isaacs & Glinert (1999), 101-122.
• Isaacs,1998. Yiddish in Orthodox Communities of Jerusalem. In D.-B. Kerler (ed.), The Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature and Society, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 85-96.
• Isaacs, 1998. Creativity in Hasidic Communities. In L. J. Greenspoon (ed.), Yiddish Language and Culture Then and Now - Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 165-188.