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Variations sur la rue juive

Recherches Germaniques
This article takes as its starting point the dual meaning of the concept of ‘Jewish street’ in Yiddish: the combination ‘yidishe gas’ not only refers to an urban space, but also designates the Jewish community as a social milieu.
Marie Schumacher-Brunhes
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Il Purim-shpil: origini e trasformazioni

Altre Modernità, 2011
The Purim-shpil: Origins and Transformations In this paper I consider the origins of the most venerable form of Yiddish theatre, the Purim-shpil. In particular, I note the first attestations of the term Purim-shpil, from its initial appearance in Yiddish
Claudia Rosenzweig
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Stories for Children by Sholem Aleichem: A Cycle in Transition

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This study traces the evolution of Sholem Aleichem’s Stories for Jewish Children cycle, showing how tales first intended for young Jewish readers changed in form, audience, and meaning over time.
Alexander Frenkel
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Les rescapés de la Shoah en Israël dans l’œuvre d’Aharon Appelfeld

Yod, 2014
Several novels by Aharon Appelfeld are set entirely or partly in Palestine or Israel. Their protagonists belong to one of these three categories :1) Young survivors who had escaped from the Nazi massacres, left Europe after the disaster and, with the ...
Lily Perlemuter
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Writings from the Margins: German-Jewish Women Poets from the Bukovina

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1997
Emerging at the crossroads of heterogeneous languages and cultures, German-Jewish women's poetry from the Bukovina displays the characteristics of its fascinating multilingual contextuality, yet it also bears the stigma of a double marginalization, for ...
Amy Colin
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L’America come seconda Yavneh? Cynthia Ozick e la rinascenza ebraica statunitense degli anni Settanta del Novecento

Iperstoria, 2017
The present essay focuses on a new phase in the evolution of Jewish-American writing which characterized the late 1960s and the 1970s, an era in which the then-current secular, humanist outlook was gradually abandoned in favor of an engagement with ...
Simona Porro
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Alternative Geographies for Alternative Stories. The Diagonal Space in Michael Chabron’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Iperstoria, 2018
The present paper discusses the construction of fictional spaces with particular focus on their relationship to history by demonstrating how in Michael Chabon’s alternate history The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a re-configuration of geography corresponds ...
Alice Balestrino
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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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21 unter 1 dakh: a case study of 21st-century Hasidic children’s literature in Yiddish translation

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This article examines the Yiddish translation of the popular series of novels for Haredi children by Ruth Rappaport which was first published in the early 2000s in Israeli Hebrew under the title עשרים ואחד בבית אחד (Twenty-One in One House).
Lily Kahn, Sonya Yampolskaya
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What is Yiddish? -Brief history of the Yiddish language and literature-

What is Yiddish? -Brief history of the Yiddish language and literature-
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