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Language exposure practices among Hasidic Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – in support of Yiddish vitality in Israel

open access: yesAmpersand
Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities in Israel maintain the use of Yiddish as a prestigious language, connecting generations and preserving the communities’ traditional way of living (Hary and BenorBerlin, 2019)).
Hadar Abutbul-Oz   +2 more
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The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts [PDF]

open access: yesText 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
doaj   +5 more sources

Wpływy polskie w jidysz według "History of the Yiddish Language" Maxa Weinreicha – przegląd i próby weryfikacji

open access: yesStudia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2016
Polish influence on Yiddish as described in Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language – overview and attempts at verification The Article concentrates on the findings regarding Slavic influence on Yiddish, described in the newest English-language
Michał Gajek
doaj   +3 more sources

Implicit Standardization in a Minority Language Community: Real-Time Syntactic Change among Hasidic Yiddish Writers [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020
The recent turn to “big data” from social media corpora has enabled sociolinguists to investigate patterns of language variation and change at unprecedented scales.
Isaac L. Bleaman
doaj   +2 more sources

La littérature yiddish en Israël

open access: yesYod, 2009
Shortly after World War I, when Yiddish literature began to be written and published in Palestine, an author writing in Yiddish was not very different from the average Palestinian Jew, since most of the Jewish population of the land were relatively young,
Yitskhok Niborski
doaj   +2 more sources

Sprachliche Imitation: Jiddisch in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (18.-20. Jahrhundert)

open access: yes, 2017
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Strukturen fiktionaler, imitierender Sprache. Am Beispiel detaillierter Analysen der sprachlichen Charakterisierung jüdischer Figuren der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 18., 19. und frühen 20.
Schäfer, Lea
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German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The
Nove, Chaya R.   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data, 2023
The YidTakNL dataset is a thorough bibliography of Yiddish regulations and announcements by the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Amsterdam between 1708 and 1846. All items are related to social, political and administrative aspects of community life.
Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow
doaj   +1 more source

An Overview of the Language History of the Hungarian Jewish Community in the Carpathian Basin and Diaspora with a Special Emphasis on Yiddish

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2020
This paper presents a brief language history of the Hungarian Jewish community since their establishment in the Carpathian Basin to the present, with a special focus on Yiddish. Between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, Yiddish became the group’
Siarl Ferdinand
doaj   +1 more source

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