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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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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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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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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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Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 285-299, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
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The Politics of Ethics in Sociolinguistics Introduction: (Re)Imagining Ethics in Sociolinguistics

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 295-299, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In an age of proliferating protocols and public moral anxieties, this Dialogue asks what sociolinguistics becomes when ethics is treated not as protocol but as relational practice. Contributions rework ethical obligation across three strands of thought: an ethics of responsibility after Levinas and Derrida, decolonial and Indigenous relational
Luke Holmes, Caroline Kerfoot
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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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Writing Poetry in Yiddish During the Destruction of Gaza? Linguistic Citizenship in a Time of Moral Crisis

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 341-347, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In this commentary, we foreground the dilemmas that arise when ethics and politics clash. Taking the Yiddish‐language poem Khurbn Aze [lit. The Destruction of Gaza] as our entry point, we argue that Stroud's sociolinguistic notion of linguistic citizenship together with Levinas's moral philosophy can offer a productive theoretical lens for ...
Hannah Lukow, Tommaso M. Milani
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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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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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