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The Feminine Sphere of Yiddish Heritage: Review of the book: Joanna Lisek (2018), Kol isze – głos kobiet w poezji jidysz (od XVI w. do 1939 r.). Sejny: Wydawnictwo Pogranicze. The review presents the monograph Kol isze – głos kobiet w poezji jidysz (od
Katarzyna Taczyńska
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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination
The European Enlightenment witnessed a Jewish reclamation of Jesus. It led modernist Yiddish intellectuals to experiment with Christian motifs as they tried to contend with what it meant to be Jewish in the modern world. This article proposes to examine,
Freya Dasgupta
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1890-1914: THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE BUND IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
This article provides an overview of the Bund from the establishment of its precursor organization in 1890 until World War I. First it takes into account the historical conditions that led to the rise of a distinct Jewish socialist movement in the ...
FISHMAN DAVID E.
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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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CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF LITHUANIAN YIDDISH
The term “Lithuanian” Yiddish popularly refers to the dialectal varieties of the Yiddish Language which were spoken not only in today’s Republic of Lithuanian, but also in northern Poland and most of Belarus. This variety is known in Yiddish dialectological studies as Northwestern Yiddish.
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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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The purpose of the research: The proposed article aims to highlight the contribution of the educational organization Kultur-Lige to the development of the Yiddish language in the Ukrainian People's Republic and the early Soviet period. Methods of the
Anna Umanska
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Le strutture della commedia umana kantoriana
The author reflects on the relationships between the theater of Tadeusz Kantor and the Yiddish theater. She explains that the experience of the Dybbuk, the work of An-ski, mise en scène of Vachtangov (Moscow, 1922) with the Habima Theatre, that Kantos ...
Béatrice Picon-Vallin
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
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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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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