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The language history of Norwegian Jews – a neglected part of Nordic multilingualism

Nordisk Judaistik
Over the past few decades, the history of Norwegian Jews has received increasing atten- tion from various academic disciplines, yet little has been done to explore the language practices of the group,which has held national minority status since ...
Stian Hårstad
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Henry Shoshkes, un voyageur juif polonais entre les deux guerres

Recherches & Travaux, 2016
In Poland, between the two World-Wars, a Jewish elite emreged, cutured and secular, as fluent (and sometimes more) in Polish as in Yiddish. Khaim (Henry) Shoshkes (1891–1964), a representative of this double culture became well-known during that period ...
Judith Lindenberg
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Joshua, King David, and the Flying Nun: Doodles and Reader Annotations in Post-Holocaust Yiddish Primers for Children

Canadian Jewish Studies
Students in Yiddish supplementary schools used texts produced by educators steeped in a diaspora nationalist pedagogy that reflected the ideological coupling of Yiddish and Yiddishkeit: the Yiddish language informed one’s sense of Jewishness.
Miriam Borden
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A Man Fighting a Lion: A Christian 'Theme' in Yiddish Epics

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2018
During the medieval and early modern periods, lions served as a common motif in Ashkenazic Jewish culture, bearing diverse symbolism. Also in literature written in Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, lions were often mentioned.
Oren Roman
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Why There May Have Been Contacts between Slovenes and Jews before 1000 A.D.

Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies
The traditional view of Jewish settlement history in Europe posits migrations from the Mediterranean region through northern France and Italy into Bavaria and the Rhineland by the end of the first millennium.
Paul Wexler
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Pent Nurmekund as the translator of Yiddish folksongs into Estonian

Nordisk Judaistik, 1994
One can often hear the question: are there any Jews in Estonia at all? And if there are, is there any reason to speak about Estonian Jewry in the sense we speak about Polish, Lithuanian, Galatian Jewry? Indeed, Estonia has never been a “traditional” land
Anna Verschik
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Simja Sneh y León Poch: Presentes, en estado de memoria

Cuadernos LIRICO, 2019
The moment and significance of the encounter between León Poch’s drawings and the texts written in Yiddish and translated into Spanish by Simja Sneh in the album titled Judíos de mi Infancia [Jews of my childhood] (Buenos Aires, 1968) represent the ...
Susana Poch
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COGNITIVE AND SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF YIDDISH VERBS WITH THE PREFIX DER-

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014
This paper shows that the Yiddish language as a "hybrid" borrowed both German and, increasingly, Slavic elements on cognitive and semantic and morphosyntactic levels.
O. V. Bader
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États du yiddish : les différents types de reconnaissance, gouvernementale ou non gouvernementale

Droit et Cultures, 2012
Treatments of language may be either positive, negative or neutral,whetherunder governmental or under non-governmental auspices. Positive governmental treatments («rewards») of language fall into a continuous rather than merely into a discontinuous or ...
Joshua A. Fishman
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Cohesion and the Yiddish Consecutive Order

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
Literary Yiddish shows a high frequency of declarative sentences with subject present and the verb in sentence-initial position--the so-called consecutive order.
Miner, Kenneth L.
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