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A.N. Stencl: The Last Yiddish Poet of Whitechapel

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This illustrated article in the Yiddish Book Centre's printed magazine Pakn Treger explores the life and work of the Polish born Yiddish poet A.N.
Lichtenstein, Rachel
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Meyd un kale, froy un vayb : the characterisation of the feminine in early eighteenth century Yiddish chapbooks

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This thesis is concerned with the behaviour of female characters in four, popular, non-ritualistic Yiddish chapbooks published at the beginning of the eighteenth century: Mayse fun a kale, Mageleyne lid, Mayse man un vayb, and Mayse fun Shloyme hameylekh.
Dowling, Jennifer Lynn
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948

open access: yes, 2012
This dissertation demonstrates that German and Yiddish literature about Jews from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Holocaust is characterized by several discourses and tropes borrowed from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and ...
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
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Records of the Union of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Vilna, 1919-1939

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These are administrative records of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Vilne, Union of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Vilna. They represent a fraction of the original union records but are nevertheless extensive enough to document the ...
Union of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Vilna.
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Becoming American: Yiddish in the Golden Land

open access: yes, 2006
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on
Norich, Anita
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The reflection of Jewish culture in modern Yiddish literature from the classics of Yiddish literature to the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Židovska kultura ima svoje izvore prvotno u vjerskim djelima kao što su Tanah, midraši, Talmud te kabalistička djela i ostatak rabinske literature koja je pisana na hebrejskome i ara-mejskome.
Vrdoljak, Andrija
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La littérature bessarabienne face à la traduction « étrangère » : approches historique, quantitative et motivationnelle

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The literary writings of authors originating from the geographical space between the Dniester and the Prut, which is Romanian in essence, but was administered by different regimes throughout history, are conventionally united under the name of ...
Anjela Coşciug , Ecaterina Foghel
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Enlightening the Skin: Travel, Racial Language, and Rabbinic Intertextuality in Modern Yiddish Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This dissertation argues for a new model of continuity - offered by the Jewish travel narrative form - to explain the appearance of race and racism in the literary history of Ashkenazi Jews.
Rosenblatt, Eli
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