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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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Le théâtre yiddish Gimpel de Lemberg : une Odyssée oubliée
Yod, 2011 The specialists of Yiddish theatre have largely ignored the importance of the Yiddish theatre in Lemberg (Lwow or, today, Lviv, in the Ukraine), founded in 1889 by Jakob Ber Gimpel (1840-1906).
Delphine Bechtel
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Tuwim’s Wedge: 'Survival Strategies' of a Polish-Jewish Poet [PDF]
, 2016 Tuwim’s approach to the “Jewish question” has already been analyzed by Polish and foreign scholars. The article is intended to consider some “survival strategies” of the Polish poet from a slightly different angle.
Tomassucci, Giovanna
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Staying Alive and Finding the Balance - An Interview with Scholar-Translator Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein
TranscUlturAl, 2015 An interview with Kathryn Hellerstein, a translator of Yiddish poetry into English, a poet, and a professor of Yiddish at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted on March 11th, 2015.
Didem Uca
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, 2009 Each issue of Yedies includes articles about exciting new YIVO projects, major grants received, and new materials received by the Archives and Library, as well as letters from readers and news about upcoming ...
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Du shtetl à la ville : à la recherche d’un yiddish (presque) perdu
Droit et Cultures, 2016 Yiddish was spoken in pre-war Poland by just under 3 million people and thrived as a literary, theatrical, cinematic and political language in addition to being the daily vernacular of the majority of Polish Jewry.
Michael Hornsby
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Speaking Jewish: “Yiddish” in the Discourse of First-Generation American Yiddish Speakers
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2005 By the end of this century, well over half of the world’s languages will disappear. Analyzing how minority languages are discussed by native speakers can provide insight into the relationship between language ideologies and language survival.
Jennifer Kronovet
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Prenominal possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver versus mayner a khaver
Linguistics, 2022 This article provides a systematic comparison and detailed analysis of two prenominal possessive constructions in Yiddish, the familiar mayn khaver ‘my friend’ and the less well-known mayner a khaver ‘a friend of mine.’ It is demonstrated that the first ...
Roehrs Dorian
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Sacred Speech and Written Word: Hebrew–Yiddish Diglossia in Hasidic Homiletics
ReligionsThis article examines the complex linguistic phenomenon of Hebrew–Yiddish diglossia within Hasidic homiletic literature, particularly focussing on sermons from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Daniel Reiser
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Leib Malach’s Montreal Travelogue, 1930
Canadian Jewish Studies, 2022 In mid-1930, the Yiddish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, and world traveller Leib Malach visited Montreal to attend the dedication of a new home for the Jewish Public Library.
Zachary M. Baker
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