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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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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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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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21 unter 1 dakh: a case study of 21st-century Hasidic children’s literature in Yiddish translation
YodThis 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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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
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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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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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AmpersandUltra-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 +2 more
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Images, 2015 Yiddish Cinema in the Prewar Polish Lands: The Socio-political and Cultural Contexts The article is an attempt to consider the impact of social-political contexts on Yiddish cinema in Poland before the outbreak of the Second World War. It also analyses
Daria Mazur
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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