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Text Recognition Model for Yiddish in 'Vaybertaytsh' Typeface, Based on Community Regulations
We 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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* The Reading Electronic Yiddish Documents (REYD) Dataset. The REYD TTS dataset is a speech dataset for Yiddish consisting of 4,892 short audio clips, with a total duration of 475.7 minutes.
Lo, Samuel +5 more
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ABSTRACT This study centers the idea that it is not just what science teacher educators (STEs) teach, but how they teach it, that matters. To prepare future teachers who can enact more equitable and transformative reform‐oriented science instruction with multilingual learners, research must explore what STEs are doing, and how, to develop preservice ...
María González‐Howard +4 more
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Du shtetl à la ville : à la recherche d’un yiddish (presque) perdu
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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Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe
This volume provides a collection of research reports on multilingualism and language contact ranging from Romance, to Germanic, Greco and Slavic languages in situations of contact and diaspora.
van Osch, Brechje +32 more
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Les Yontev-bletlekh de Y. L. Peretz
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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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination
The European Enlightenment witnessed a Jewish reclamation of Jesus. It led modernist Yiddish intellectuals to experiment with Christian motifs as they tried to contend with what it meant to be Jewish in the modern world. This article proposes to examine,
Freya Dasgupta
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Khemye: Chemical literature in Yiddish [PDF]
The history of chem. literature, confined to the 20th century, written in a lesser-known language, Yiddish, is traced. The Yiddish language is a fusion language of medieval German dialect, some Slavic vocabulary and grammar, a Hebrew-Aramaic component ...
Cohen, Stephen M.
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