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Yiddish as a Literary Language

, 1993
Although the word language is always loosely connected with speech, literature is an entirely different form. It relies more heavily on style and technique, and is more artful and fluid in structure.
Dov-Ber Kerler
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Factors Affecting Communication Outcomes for Deaf and Multilingual Learners: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Int J Lang Commun Disord
ABSTRACT Background Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children who are exposed to more than one spoken language can be described as deaf and multilingual learners (DMLs). Increased globalisation and technological advancements in hearing amplification mean an increasing number of children who are DHH access more than one spoken language (with and without ...
Kilmartin E, Conroy P, Owens J.
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Aging in Nationhood: Everyday Nationalism and Belonging Among Seniors in Old-Age Homes in Québec. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT Scholars of aging and nationalism rarely engage with each another. To remedy this gap, I examine how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of aging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two private senior residences in a region of Québec, I show how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through ...
Stallone J.
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The overlap of anti-Black and anti-protest rhetoric: How far-right political commentators preserve anti-Black racist stereotypes in the context of Black Lives Matter debates. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Abstract Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This paper builds on these insights by exploring how right‐wing political commentators reinforce the racist stereotype of violent Black people when ...
Hunt A, Demasi M, Goodman S.
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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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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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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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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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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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Translation or Divination? Sacred Languages and Bilingualism in Judaism and Lucumí Traditions

Religions, 2022
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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