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

Ampersand
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, Dafna Yitzhaki, Sharon Armon-Lotem   +2 more
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Implicit Standardization in a Minority Language Community: Real-Time Syntactic Change among Hasidic Yiddish Writers [PDF]

Frontiers 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
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Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Jews: A Perspective from Culture, Language, and Literature. [PDF]

Genome Biology and Evolution, 2016
Marion Aptroot
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YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland

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

Hungarian 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
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Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey [PDF]

Demographic Research, 2023
BACKGROUND: Amid low fertility rates in the industrialized world, some subpopulations have maintained high fertility rates. However, it has often been difficult to study these populations due to limitations in extant data sources.
Lyman Stone
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Hybrid Characteristics of Prefixed Verbs in Yiddish

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The research objective was to show the hybrid characteristics of prefixed verbs in Yiddish caused by its contact with Semitic and Slavic languages. The Yiddish system of verb prefixes, in particular, those with hybrid polysemy, is a phenomenon when the ...
K. A. Shishigin
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Deutsch-jiddischer Sprachenkontakt in der Figurenrede des Romans Die Peschl von Otto Seidmann im Kontext des Czernowitzerischen der Zwischenkriegszeit [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2022
The present paper analyses the German–Yiddish contact variety of the first chapter of the novel Die Peschl (1969) written by the Czernowitzborn author Otto Seidmann.
Ágota Nagy
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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2019
In this paper, based on five weeks of ethnographic field work in a Yiddish classroom in Poland, I describe how Yiddish language ideologies were realized and enacted within the classroom by language learners and teachers alike.
Alex McGrath
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The Work of Jewish Folklorist Solomon Beilin in the Context of the Development of Yiddish Culture in the 1920s–1930s

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The article is the final part of a major study that featured the life and work of Solomon Kh. Beilin (1858–1942), a Jewish folklorist, ethnographer, and publicist, the Rabbi of the cities of Rogachev and Irkutsk, who was one of the first researchers to ...
E. A. Berman
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