Das Ostjiddische im Sprachkontakt: Deutsch im Spannungsfeld zwischen Semitisch und Slavisch

In the course of the centuries, Eastern European Yiddish (East Yiddish) has borrowed numerous phonetic and grammatical features both from Hebrew and Babylonian Aramaic and from the co-territorial Slavonic languages in eastern Europe. The study undertakes a critical examination and systematization of the central interferential phenomena in East Yiddish. In conclusion, a new theory on the assimilation of Slavonic features by East Yiddish is proposed.