Cover
Front matter
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Repairing and Describing His Life: The Philological Career
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Early Years: Studies and Friendships
The Field of Linguistics
First Publications
The Science of Judaism: Advancing Emancipation
Semasiology
Paris, Gaston Paris, and the Jours d’Emprunt
Leipzig and the Neogrammarians
Research on Yiddish
The Dialectological Study of Judeo-German
Spreading the Word on Yiddish
B.P. Hasdeu, Anti-Semitism, and Jewish Relations
University Lectures and New Books
V. A. Urechiă and the First Rejection of Naturalization
Favorable Reviews and Marriage
Basmele Române
The Basmele Wins a Prize
Second Defeat of Request for Naturalization
Self-Defense and Studies in Folklore
The Dicționar Universal
Non-Zionist Jew and His Circle of Friends
Paris, London: Gaster and Zionism
Paris: Nordau and Zionism
The Rejection of Zionism, the Dreyfus Affair
Baptism and Its Consequences
The Oriental Influence on Romanian Language and Culture
Șăineanu and Other Jews
The Last Months: Publication and Defeat
The New Émigré
Living and Making a Living; Some Translations
Judeo-German for the French Scholar
The Popular Languages of France
Rabelais
Les Sources Indigènes and Disappointment
Summing Up
Languages and “the People” in the 1920s and 1930s
Two Jewish Critics on Sainéan’s Life
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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