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Deutsch-jiddischer Sprachenkontakt in der Figurenrede des Romans Die Peschl von Otto Seidmann im Kontext des Czernowitzerischen der Zwischenkriegszeit [PDF]
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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Hybrid Characteristics of Prefixed Verbs in Yiddish
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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Ideology and Postvernacularity in 21st Century Yiddish Pedagogy
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 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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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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Translation or Divination? Sacred Languages and Bilingualism in Judaism and Lucumí Traditions
I compare the status of a sacred language in two very different religious traditions. In Judaism, the Hebrew language is the language of liturgy, prayer, and the Written Law.
Michael Nosonovsky
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Teatr żydowski w świetle «Izraelity» w latach 1883–1905
This article concerns all references to Yiddish theater in the Polish-language Jewish periodical Izraelita which had been printed after the banning of performances in Yiddish.
Mirosława Bułat
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In a discourse analysis with regards to stance and social indexicality, representational language or “TV language” from the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel illuminates several functions of Yiddish loanwords as variables: stancetakers’ disproportionate ...
Jacqueline Hirsh Greene
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Yiddish Cinema in the Prewar Polish Lands: The Socio-political and Cultural Contexts The article is an attempt to consider the impact of social-political contexts on Yiddish cinema in Poland before the outbreak of the Second World War. It also analyses
Daria Mazur
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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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