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“Wandering is your fate”: Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein Writing Across Boundaries
Canadian Jewish Studies, 2003 This essay provides an overview of the life and creative work of Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Yiddish poet and wife of Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirschbein.
Faith Jones
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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination
Religions, 2022 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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Colloquia Humanistica, 2020 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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1890-1914: THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE BUND IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Pl.it, 2022 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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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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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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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Ìсторія України. Українознавство: історичні та філософські наукиThe 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
Mimesis Journal, 2016 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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Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 852-878, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study centers the idea that it is not just what science teacher educators (STEs) teach, but how they teach it, that matters. To prepare future teachers who can enact more equitable and transformative reform‐oriented science instruction with multilingual learners, research must explore what STEs are doing, and how, to develop preservice ...
María González‐Howard +4 more
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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