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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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Yiddish Buenos Aires and the struggle to leave the margins
, 2020 Yiddish culture developed in Argentina within the context of a self-perception that figured Buenos Aires as a marginal and peripheral locale on the global Yiddish map.
Kalczewiak, Mariusz (Dr. phil.)
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L’écriture poétique durant la Shoah
Yod, 2011 Having defined Shoah literature as texts written by prisoners of ghettos and camps while they were imprisoned, the article focuses on a group of Yiddish texts of this type, drawn from a larger collection of unpublished texts written in various languages.
Miryam Trinh
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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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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How the Dominant Reading Direction Changes Parafoveal Processing: A Combined EEG/Eye‐Tracking Study
Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Reading directions vary across writing systems. Through long‐term experience, readers adjust their visual systems to the dominant reading direction in their writing systems. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these adjustments because different writing systems do not just differ in reading direction, but also in ...
Xin Huang +6 more
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A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale [PDF]
, 2014 A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual ...
L. Kahn, Kahn, LO, Kahn, Lily, Kahn, L.
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The Bibliothèque Medem: Eighty Years Serving Yiddish Culture [PDF]
, 2014 The Bibliothèque Medem (or Medem-Bibliotek, in Yiddish), in Paris, is the largest Yiddish library in Western and Central Europe, as well as a major Jewish cultural center.
Rozier, Gilles
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Global Yiddish Culture, 1938 – 1948 : appel à contribution
, 2014 L'Université de Toronto organise en avril 2015 une conférence sur la culture yiddish de 1938 à 1948, dans le monde, et à cet effet lance un appel à contribution, que vous trouverez ci-dessous (et sur le site de l'Université).
Julia Maspero
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