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God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation. Translated and Edited by Nahma Sandrow. Syracuse University Press, 1999. 320 pages. $24.95 paper.

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Yiddish language was still primarily a vernacular for common conversation. Hebrew was the honored language, the language of prayer and scholarship, and from the end of the century the vehicle of the Zionist movement. In the middle of the century, industrialization and the growth of...