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The vocabulary of Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – A CDI study

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Yiddish-Hebrew speakers residing in Israel are primarily Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox Jews, living in relatively closed communities, characterized by their large number of children, low parental formal education, and low family income. Religious literacy and
Odelya Ohana, Mitchell Schertz, Sharon Armon-Lotem   +2 more
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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2019
In this paper, based on five weeks of ethnographic field work in a Yiddish classroom in Poland, I describe how Yiddish language ideologies were realized and enacted within the classroom by language learners and teachers alike.
Alex McGrath
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'In Glasgow but not quite of it’? Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in a Provincial Jewish Community from c.1890 to c.1945 [PDF]

, 2013
This article makes use of autobiographies and oral interviews in order to explore the lifestyles of the first generation of immigrants within one particular provincial Jewish community – the Gorbals in Glasgow – between 1890 and 1945.
AVRAM TAYLOR, Rogers
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Jiddische Sprache als Kulturträger in Polen nach der Schoah

Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2019
With the Shoah, the number of speakers of Yiddish was brutally reduced; thus, Yiddish culture was destroyed. In the immediate post-war period, there were initiatives in Poland to preserve and revive the remnants.
Anna Rozenfeld
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21 unter 1 dakh: a case study of 21st-century Hasidic children’s literature in Yiddish translation

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This article examines the Yiddish translation of the popular series of novels for Haredi children by Ruth Rappaport which was first published in the early 2000s in Israeli Hebrew under the title עשרים ואחד בבית אחד (Twenty-One in One House).
Lily Kahn, Sonya Yampolskaya
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Le yiddish : un passé proche et un souvenir éternel dans l’univers d’Aharon Appelfeld

Yod, 2011
The article takes a look at what we know about the role of languages in the life of Aharon Appelfeld. He heard Yiddish only in his early childhood, as a language spoken by his grandparents, but in Israel, after the war, learning Yiddish appeared to him ...
Masha Itzhaki
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Yiddish Phraseology: Ill Wishes

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The present research featured Yiddish idioms of ill-wishing, which can be considered as both phraseological units and micro-texts. The study featured semantic and stylistic analysis, analysis of dictionary definitions, and the traditional descriptive ...
K. A. Shishigin, K. S. Laukhina
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Teatr żydowski w Polsce: Stan badań

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1992
The general framework of the history of Jewish theater in Poland must be placed in a trilingual cultural context – Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish. The definition of Yiddish theater encompasses stage productions, both amateur and professional, staged within ...
Michael C. Steinlauf
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[Review of] Rakhmiel Peltz. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia [PDF]

, 1997
Rakhmiel Peltz, in From Immigrants to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia, presents one of the few ethnographies available on spoken American Yiddish in his investigation of the elderly children of immigrant Jews in a Philadelphia ...
Fader, Ayala
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Language exposure practices among Hasidic Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – in support of Yiddish vitality in Israel

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Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities in Israel maintain the use of Yiddish as a prestigious language, connecting generations and preserving the communities’ traditional way of living (Hary and BenorBerlin, 2019)).
Hadar Abutbul-Oz, Dafna Yitzhaki, Sharon Armon-Lotem   +2 more
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