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Canadian Jewish StudiesChaim Kruger (1877–1933) was born in Lithuania, educated in Lithuanian yeshivas, and became a personality of some importance in the Montreal Jewish community after his emigration to Canada in 1907.
Ira Robinson
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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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The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT Similarly to language, play is an essential component of human behaviour and culture. However, the links between play and language have been underexamined and often neglected beyond the aesthetic uses of language as found in literature. But playing pervades language.
Antonio Benítez‐Burraco +2 more
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The Emergence of Common Eastern Yiddish (Proto-Standard Yiddish)
, 1993 The continuous modernization was literally the constant production of new and fresh features and concepts. Grammatical reconstruction and future-tense auxiliary are some examples of these. The different regional dialects in Eastern Yiddish languages have
Dov-Ber Kerler
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Stories for Children by Sholem Aleichem: A Cycle in Transition
YodThis 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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Irad Ben Isaak: Questioning the Minority Status of Yiddish Literature
, 2019 I will deal with the question of to what extent Yiddish literature can be seen as a “minor” or “small” literature. Yiddish was the main vernacular, as well as written and printed, language of Europe´s Jews until they were exterminated by Nazi Germany ...
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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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Orthodox Yiddish literature in interwar Poland.
, 2005 In Poland between the two world wars Yiddish literary works in modern forms appeared in the periodicals of the major Orthodox political party Agudes Yisroel.
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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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