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Introduction: The Culture of Yiddish Radio

2009
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The Acoustic Culture of Yiddish

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2006
This essay examines the acoustics of Yiddish and the ways in which Yiddish signifies beyond the boundaries of formal Yiddish speech and language. Pursuing the extra-linguistic ways in which Yiddish circulates opens up new opportunities for engagement in Jewish culture.
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3. Creating Modern Yiddish Culture

2010
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Culture and the Public: A Yiddish Perspective

Canadian–American Slavic Studies, 2013
This article explores the concept of the public as imagined by two prominent Yiddish cultural critics, Shmuel Niger and Mikhl Weichert. The article argues that both were heavily influenced by the Russian critical tradition, and were intimately engaged with the question of the relationship between culture and the public.
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The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (review)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2007
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, by David E. Fishman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 190 pp. $30.00. As of late, there has been no shortage of books on Yiddish. Ranging from popular to semi-academic to academic works, dozens of recent books have examined the Yiddish language, its literature, culture, and history.
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New Approaches to Modern Yiddish Culture

Jewish Quarterly Review, 2006
One of the more complicated questions that has accompanied the renais sance of the study of Yiddish culture is the definition of the term itself, particularly given the complex and ardent ideological battles around the Yiddish language that inflected much of the scholarship on Yiddish, in Yiddish, and for Yiddish, to quote the title of Dovid Katz's ...
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An important event in Soviet Yiddish cultural life: The new Russian‐Yiddish dictionary

Soviet Jewish Affairs, 1984
M. A. Shapiro, I. G. Spivak and M. Ya. Shulman (eds.). Russko‐evreysky (idish) slovar. Rusish‐Yidisher Verterbukh (Russian‐Yiddish Dictionary). Moscow: Russky yazyk, 1984. 720 pp. Approx. 40,000 words. 20,000 copies. 8.80 roubles.
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Survivors and exiles – Yiddish culture after the Holocaust

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2016
Jan Schwarz takes the reader on a journey through the fragmented landscape of Yiddish culture in the post-Holocaust era.
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Yiddish in Helsinki. Study of a colonial Yiddish dialect and culture

2015
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From Yiddish to "Yiddishkeit": A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal’s Yiddish Culture

Journal of Canadian Studies, 1984
While the religious sources of A.M. Klein’s work have been acknowledged, his debt to Yiddish and its literature — from which he derived nourishment and inspiration all his life — has been ignored. Klein matured in a Jewish Montreal which was largely Yiddish-speaking and he knew well its prominent Yiddish writers and communal leaders, especially the ...
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