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Multilingual Literature of the United States

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2022
Like the Russian Federation, the United States is a multilingual, multicultural society. A nation of immigrants and indigenous peoples, it has produced a rich body of literature in dozens of languages in addition to English that scholars have only in ...
Steven Kellman
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ÄSTHETIK DES JIDDISCHEN IN DER KLASSISCHEN MODERNE

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Der Beitrag erzählt die Geschichte der Entdeckung und Aufwertung des Jiddischen unter deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern. Hatte die zunächst als Judendeutsch, Mauscheln oder Jargon bezeichnete Sprache in literarischen Texten des 19. Jahrhunderts vornehmlich eine mimetische Funktion, in der Regel wie bei Gustav Freytag in
Alexander Nebrig
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The Falsifications of Isaac Babel's Manuscripts and Their Recognition [PDF]

open access: yesЛитературный факт
The article is dedicated to the handwritten legacy of Isaac Babel and examines the writer’s letters, inscriptions, and drawings introduced into scientific circulation in the last decade. Based on the analysis of these findings, the article concludes that
Petr A. Druzhinin
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 285-299, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
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Przedstawienia purimowe

open access: yesPamiętnik Teatralny, 1992
The first Polish language presentation of the oldest Yiddish theatrical tradition, along with its religious and social contexts. The author gives a description of the Purim festivities and mentions the traditional dislike expressed by religious circles ...
Tomasz Kuberczyk
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The Politics of Ethics in Sociolinguistics Introduction: (Re)Imagining Ethics in Sociolinguistics

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 295-299, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In an age of proliferating protocols and public moral anxieties, this Dialogue asks what sociolinguistics becomes when ethics is treated not as protocol but as relational practice. Contributions rework ethical obligation across three strands of thought: an ethics of responsibility after Levinas and Derrida, decolonial and Indigenous relational
Luke Holmes, Caroline Kerfoot
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Writing Poetry in Yiddish During the Destruction of Gaza? Linguistic Citizenship in a Time of Moral Crisis

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 341-347, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In this commentary, we foreground the dilemmas that arise when ethics and politics clash. Taking the Yiddish‐language poem Khurbn Aze [lit. The Destruction of Gaza] as our entry point, we argue that Stroud's sociolinguistic notion of linguistic citizenship together with Levinas's moral philosophy can offer a productive theoretical lens for ...
Hannah Lukow, Tommaso M. Milani
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Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832–1914), Yiddish Translator of Sacred Jewish Books

open access: yesYod
This article examines the life and work of Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832-1914), a figure largely neglected in scholarship on modern Yiddish literature, despite his immense influence on generations of Yiddish readers that continues to the present day.
Tal Hever-Chybowski
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Reviews/Interviews

open access: yesText Matters, 2012
Adam Sumera: Capital Ellowen Deeowen: A Review of The Making of London: London in Contemporary Literature by Sebastian Groes (Houndsmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011) Wit Pietrzak: Deconstruction and Liberation: A Review of Simon Glendinning’s Derrida
Adam Sumera   +6 more
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