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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]
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
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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
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Implicit Standardization in a Minority Language Community: Real-Time Syntactic Change among Hasidic Yiddish Writers [PDF]
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
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La littérature yiddish en Israël
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
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Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Jews: A Perspective from Culture, Language, and Literature [PDF]
Aptroot M.
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Sprachliche Imitation: Jiddisch in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (18.-20. Jahrhundert)
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]
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
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YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland
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
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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
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