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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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Text Recognition Model for Yiddish in 'Vaybertaytsh' Typeface, Based on Community Regulations
Journal of Open Humanities DataWe present a public text recognition PyLaia model accompanied by a baseline model for the layout of community regulations in Yiddish and a dataset for Yiddish texts printed in Vaybertaytsh typeface.
Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow
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ÄSTHETIK DES JIDDISCHEN IN DER KLASSISCHEN MODERNE
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Der Beitrag erzählt die Geschichte der Entdeckung und Aufwertung des Jiddischen unter deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern. Hatte die zunächst als Judendeutsch, Mauscheln oder Jargon bezeichnete Sprache in literarischen Texten des 19. Jahrhunderts vornehmlich eine mimetische Funktion, in der Regel wie bei Gustav Freytag in
Alexander Nebrig
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Du shtetl à la ville : à la recherche d’un yiddish (presque) perdu
Droit et Cultures, 2016 Yiddish was spoken in pre-war Poland by just under 3 million people and thrived as a literary, theatrical, cinematic and political language in addition to being the daily vernacular of the majority of Polish Jewry.
Michael Hornsby
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 285-299, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
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The Politics of Ethics in Sociolinguistics Introduction: (Re)Imagining Ethics in Sociolinguistics
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 295-299, June 2026.ABSTRACT In an age of proliferating protocols and public moral anxieties, this Dialogue asks what sociolinguistics becomes when ethics is treated not as protocol but as relational practice. Contributions rework ethical obligation across three strands of thought: an ethics of responsibility after Levinas and Derrida, decolonial and Indigenous relational
Luke Holmes, Caroline Kerfoot
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Les Yontev-bletlekh de Y. L. Peretz
Yod, 2015 The monthly Yontev-bletlekh (Warsaw, 1894-1886) is one of the first Yiddish periodicals. Despite the Tsarist ban on Yiddish periodicals, it succeeded in reaching a new readership of working class Jews, using a language and style comprehensible to them ...
Sharon Bar-Kochva
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 341-347, June 2026.ABSTRACT In this commentary, we foreground the dilemmas that arise when ethics and politics clash. Taking the Yiddish‐language poem Khurbn Aze [lit. The Destruction of Gaza] as our entry point, we argue that Stroud's sociolinguistic notion of linguistic citizenship together with Levinas's moral philosophy can offer a productive theoretical lens for ...
Hannah Lukow, Tommaso M. Milani
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Righteous Among the Nations: Music Without Borders
Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2019 The Garden of the Righteous, a program presented by Naye Strunes, a Minneapolis-based Yiddish music ensemble, weaves together original Yiddish music and stories of fearless individuals from among the thousands of non-Jews who risked their lives to save ...
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