1st Edition
Listening to the Languages of the People Lazare Sainéan on Romanian, Yiddish, and French
By Natalie Zemon Davis
Copyright 2022
200 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This tale of great achievements and great disappointments offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between scholarship and political sentiment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Lazăr Şăineanu (1859-1934), linguist and folklorist, was a pioneer in his native Romania, seeking out the popular elements in culture along with high literary ones. He was among the first to... Read more
Note on Transliteration, Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I. ROMANIA, PART II. FRANCE, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Natalie Zemon Davis is Professor Emerita in the History Department at the University of Toronto.
