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Yiddish in Helsinki and its Swedish component
Nordisk Judaistik, 2000 Yiddish has been spoken in Helsinki since 1850s when the Jewish Cantonist soldiers and their families were allowed to settle in the town. The first generations born in Helsinki had the possibility to attend heders and a Talmud-torah where religious ...
Simo Muir
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Hybrid Characteristics of Prefixed Verbs in Yiddish
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021 The research objective was to show the hybrid characteristics of prefixed verbs in Yiddish caused by its contact with Semitic and Slavic languages. The Yiddish system of verb prefixes, in particular, those with hybrid polysemy, is a phenomenon when the ...
K. A. Shishigin
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Autobiografia, 2020 In this article we analyze one interview that is part of an oral history project about Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia entitled “Love in the ruins: the history of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia 1945–1972.” All the interviews, including the one ...
AGNIESZKA ILWICKA-KARUNA
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Res Rhetorica, 2020 This article examines Chaim Zhitlowsky’s (1865-1943) use of the “internal” Jewish space of the Yiddish press to critique the American melting pot and present his alternative “internationalist” model.
Ri J. Turner
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Yankev Shternberg and the modernization of Yiddish theatre in interwar Romania [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021 The end of the First World War brought the theatre audience back to the performance halls. The Yiddish theater, with a few decades of experience and an already assured popularity, was already considered to be the vector for the preservation and ...
Camelia CRĂCIUN
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Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2020 This paper presents a brief language history of the Hungarian Jewish community since their establishment in the Carpathian Basin to the present, with a special focus on Yiddish. Between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, Yiddish became the group’
Siarl Ferdinand
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How Yiddish is Haredi Satmar Yiddish? [PDF]
Journal of Jewish Languages, 2018 Abstract Ever since the founding of the modern Haredi Satmar movement in the late 1940s in New York City, the Yiddish variety spoken by the Satmar Haredim has been subject to considerable influence from coterritorial English. The present article addresses the question of the extent to which core features of Eastern European Yiddish have survived into ...
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Transnational Ashkenaz: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016 After the Holocaust’s near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime.
Jan Schwarz
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Teatr żydowski w świetle «Izraelity» w latach 1883–1905
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1992 This article concerns all references to Yiddish theater in the Polish-language Jewish periodical Izraelita which had been printed after the banning of performances in Yiddish.
Mirosława Bułat
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021 The article is the final part of a major study that featured the life and work of Solomon Kh. Beilin (1858–1942), a Jewish folklorist, ethnographer, and publicist, the Rabbi of the cities of Rogachev and Irkutsk, who was one of the first researchers to ...
E. A. Berman
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