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"Di Ufgabn Fun Yidishizm". Debates on Modern Yiddish Culture in Interwar Poland
Colloquia Humanistica, 2015 “Di Ufgabn Fun Yidishizm”. Debates on Modern Yiddish Culture in Interwar Poland Modern secular Yiddish culture reached the peak of its development during the 1920s and Poland was at that time one of the main centres where Yiddish literature, theatre ...
Aleksandra Geller
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2019 Uriel Weinreich’s atlas project the “Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry” (LCAAJ, 1959–1972) has created an unique dataset of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Yiddish speakers whose varieties represent the former dialects ...
Lea Schäfer
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, 2008 Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/dovid_stylistics.htm This version of the entry for Yiddish contains a moderate number of revisions made too late for inclusion in the printed version, which appears in vol. 1, pp.
Katz, Dovid
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
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Di case, lingue e finestre: Ida Kaminska, attrice yiddish
Altre Modernità, 2015 This paper aims to explore the artistic biography of Ida Kaminska – the leading figure of the Yiddish theatre in Poland in the 20th century – proposing a new metaphor for the theatrical experience of the Ashkenazi Jews and a different use of the audio ...
Giulia Randone
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The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960
, 2003 Includes bibliographical references.This dissertation sets out to investigate the history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Yiddish theatre first emerged in Jassy in Rumania in 1876.
Belling, Veronica
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How the Dominant Reading Direction Changes Parafoveal Processing: A Combined EEG/Eye‐Tracking Study
Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Reading directions vary across writing systems. Through long‐term experience, readers adjust their visual systems to the dominant reading direction in their writing systems. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these adjustments because different writing systems do not just differ in reading direction, but also in ...
Xin Huang +6 more
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(Dia)Lects in the 21st Century: Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XVII
This book offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary issues and methodologies in the fields of dialectology and sociolinguistics. Readers will find a diverse collection of studies that examine how language varies and changes across different regions,
Takemura, Akiko +32 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2009 Woody Allen is considered the heir to the greatest American burlesque artists, first of all the Marx Brothers, for he embodies a Jewish humor tradition, as they also do.
Frédérique Brisset
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