Yiddish and Voting Rights in New York, 1915 and 1921  

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Fishman, Joshua A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 18 no. 1 (1994), page 1-18.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Like Spanish-speakers in the USA today, Yiddish-speakers just prior to and after World War I were subject to various reactionary attempts to limit their power at the polls. An English literacy amendment to the New York State Constitution was finally instituted, in 1921, in connection with voting, notwithstanding the cultural democracy and proletarian participation protests of certain Jewish spokesmen and Yiddish publications. Others, however, accepted the need for English and did not interpret the English literacy requirement as either a constitutional or a cultural matter of particular importance to American Jews or to the future of Yiddish in America. Minorities in general and immigrant minorities in particular are frequently too insecure to confront the mainstream and to struggle for the full legitimacy of their own cultural identity or even pluralistic co-identity. This disunity increases their ineffectiveness in trying to counteract efforts to restrict ethnolinguistic democracy.

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