%0 Journal Article
%T From the Market Place to the University: Yiddish Language
	and Culture as an Academic Field
%A Cohen, Nathan
%J Studia Judaica
%V 2014
%N Nr 1 (33)
%P 7-17

%@ 1506-9729
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-judaica/artykul/from-the-market-place-to-the-university-yiddish-language-and-culture-as-an-academic-field
%X 
	In spite of the large number of literary works that were written and printed in Yiddish throughout the centuries, it was not considered as a valid language up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to a pioneering group of a few Jewish scholars, for whom Yiddish and Yiddishism became an ideological mission, new academic approaches were implemented into the study of Yiddish language, literature and culture. In the second half of the twentieth century a new generation of scholars broadened the range of research while developing new methods of work and training the next generation of experts. At the present time Yiddish studies are a respected academic field in various countries, including Poland, and cannot be overlooked anymore in the context of Jewish studies.