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A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale [PDF]

, 2014
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual ...
L. Kahn, Kahn, LO, Kahn, Lily, Kahn, L.
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Jiddische Verlage und Bibliotheken in der Bukowina der Zwischenkriegszeit. Erkundungen in der Czernowitzer Presse [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2021
Compared to the Habsburg era, when Yiddish writings were hardly printed in Bukovina – due to the centralized policy of Vienna and the openness towards integration and assimilation on the part of numerous Bukovinian Jews, as well as because of the ...
Francisca SOLOMON
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The vocabulary of Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – A CDI study

Ampersand
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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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

Yod
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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The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts

Text Matters, 2015
The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and a modern idea of Jewishness ...
Brygida Gasztold
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Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

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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From German to Yiddish: adaptation strategies in the Kuhbukh and the Siben weisen mainster bichel

, 2013
In light of often derogatory and unqualified assessments of Yiddish literature adapted from German narrative models, this thesis will propose a different approach to viewing these adaptations.
Juillard-Maniece, Jennifer
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