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Les Yontev-bletlekh de Y. L. Peretz
Yod, 2015 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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Historia Crítica, 2021 Objective/Context: This article examines the role of translators as agents and translation as a mediating strategy to establish Jewish-Argentine identities in Argentina, from the rise of Nazism until the end of the Second World War.
Ariel Svarch
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Text Recognition Model for Yiddish in 'Vaybertaytsh' Typeface, Based on Community Regulations
Journal of Open Humanities DataWe 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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Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2019 Yitskhok Katsenelson was a Jewish writer, teacher and translator; he was murdered on May 1st, 1944 in Auschwitz. His work Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk [The Song of the Murdered Jewish People] which is one of the most important literary ...
Magdalena Sitarz, Andrzej Pawelec
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Sacred Speech and Written Word: Hebrew–Yiddish Diglossia in Hasidic Homiletics
ReligionsThis article examines the complex linguistic phenomenon of Hebrew–Yiddish diglossia within Hasidic homiletic literature, particularly focussing on sermons from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Daniel Reiser
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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination
Religions, 2022 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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Anonymity and Jewishness as forms of alienation: Israel Rabon’s The Street
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2016 Anonymity and Jewishness as Forms of Alienation: Israel Rabon’s The Street The article discusses Israel Rabon’s novel The Street (1985), which was originally published in Yiddish in 1928. The novel is set in post-World War I Łódź, Poland and narrates
Brygida Gasztold
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Ìсторія України. Українознавство: історичні та філософські наукиThe purpose of the research: The proposed article aims to highlight the contribution of the educational organization Kultur-Lige to the development of the Yiddish language in the Ukrainian People's Republic and the early Soviet period. Methods of the
Anna Umanska
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Un gong muet au fond de l’homme
Yod, 2011 In this homage to one of the greatest Jewish poets of the XXth century, the Israeli poet Dory Manor explains how he discovered the work of Avrom Sutzkever and recounts the personal discussions that he later had with the Yiddish poet.
Dory Manor
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Several Narrative Strategies in Yiddish and Czech Stories
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2023 This article deals with six short stories written in Yiddish and Czech analyzing their narrative strategies. In The German by Sholem Aleichem the limited first-person perspective of the story makes it impossible to look into the inner world of the ...
Jiří Holý
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