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Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries in the Raysn region(Belarus and Ukraine) [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries from the region called Raysn (mostly in current Belarus and partially in Ukraine) are studied as a historical source and a literature genre.
Nosonovsky, M.
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YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 The YidTakNL dataset is a thorough bibliography of Yiddish regulations and announcements by the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Amsterdam between 1708 and 1846. All items are related to social, political and administrative aspects of community life.
Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow
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“Floating Jews”—The luftmentsh as an Economic Character
Œconomia, 2022 The Yiddish word “luftmentsh”, literally “air-person”, refers to petty traders, peddlers, beggars and paupers. The word appeared for the first time in Yiddish literature in the 1860s and began to be used by economists and statisticians in the 1880s-1890s.
Nicolas Vallois, Sarah Imhoff
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Becoming Canadian: Folk Literary Innovation in the Memoirs of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to Canada
Canadian Jewish Studies, 2020 This article considers the ways Yiddish-speaking immigrants to Canada creatively adapted folklore that they learned in “the old home” in order to make it fit their new Canadian contexts, and in doing so created new hybrid folklore and identities.
Vardit Lightstone
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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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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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Transnational Ashkenaz: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016 After the Holocaust’s near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime.
Jan Schwarz
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S: I. M. O. N., 2020 This article examines A. Sutzkever’s series of Yiddish prose poems, Green Aquarium (1953– 1954), as an exemplar of an alternative, surreal tradition of Holocaust remembrance that stands in contrast to more austere modes of witnessing.
Kathryn L. Brackney
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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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Jidysz – angielski – polski. Problemy przekładu i pamięci
Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2014 The article presents selected translations of Yiddish literature into English, focusing on the influence of translator’s choices on forming the topography and realities of life in Poland before the Second World War.
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
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