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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault, Alexandrine Barontini, Kiana Sakimehr   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Przedstawienia purimowe

Pamiętnik 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
wiley   +1 more source

Race‐related research in economics

Economica, Volume 93, Issue 370, Page 403-438, April 2026.
Abstract Issues of racial justice and economic inequalities between racial and ethnic groups have risen to the top of public debate. Economists' ability to contribute to these debates is based on the body of race‐related research. We study the volume and content of race‐related research in economics.
Arun Advani, Elliott Ash, Anton Boltachka, David Cai, Imran Rasul   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reviews/Interviews

Text 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, Wit Pietrzak, Monika Kocot, Fadia Faqir, Maria Assif, Norman Ravvin, Krzysztof Majer   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

ACROSS LANGUAGE BORDERS: WRITING INTEGRATION AND BELONGING IN KINDERTRANSPORT DIARIES

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 129-147, April 2026.
ABSTRACT The diaries of six Kindertransport refugees who fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria to Britain in 1938 and 1939 offer unique insights into how language use reflects negotiations of identity and belonging. Moving beyond traditional concepts of bilingualism, a translingual framework reveals how these young refugees navigated between ...
Monja Stahlberger
wiley   +1 more source

Le yiddish : un passé proche et un souvenir éternel dans l’univers d’Aharon Appelfeld

Yod, 2011
The article takes a look at what we know about the role of languages in the life of Aharon Appelfeld. He heard Yiddish only in his early childhood, as a language spoken by his grandparents, but in Israel, after the war, learning Yiddish appeared to him ...
Masha Itzhaki
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'End of the jargon-scandal' - The decline and fall of Yiddish in the Netherlands (1796-1886)

, 2006
In the nineteenth century the language of the Ashkenazi community in the Netherlands rapidly changed as the Dutch vernacular replaced Yiddish. In the first half of the century a coalition composed of government officials and members of the Jewish elite ...
Wallet, B.T., Wallet, B.T.; id_orcid
core   +1 more source

Yoysef Meyer Yavets (1832–1914), Yiddish Translator of Sacred Jewish Books

Yod
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
doaj   +1 more source

Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino

The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language which arose in the Middle Ages amongst the Jews of the German lands and was brought to many other ...
Rosenzweig, Claudia, Papo, Eliezer, Esperanza, Anabella, Smid, Katja, Taube, Moshe, Bunis, David M., Schwarzwald, Ora (Rodrigue), Hunyadi, Binyamin, Bar-Levav, Avriel, Silber, Michael K., Alexander, Tamar, Gutwirth, Eleazar   +11 more
openaire   +2 more sources