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The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
Text 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
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Factors Affecting Communication Outcomes for Deaf and Multilingual Learners: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT 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 SociolABSTRACT 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 PsycholAbstract 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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Studia 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
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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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Teatr żydowski w świetle «Izraelity» w latach 1883–1905
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 1992 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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Lifespans and Styles, 2020 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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Images, 2015 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
Yod, 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
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