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Khemye: chemical literature in Yiddish
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 2004The history of chem. literature, confined to the 20th century, written in a lesser-known language, Yiddish, is traced. The Yiddish language is a fusion language of medieval German dialect, some Slavic vocabulary and grammar, a Hebrew-Aramaic component, and even some words of Romance origins. This language is now considered endangered.
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The Story of Yiddish Literature
Books Abroad, 1941Charles A. Madison, A. A. Roback
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2018
The most important writer of old Yiddish literature was Elijah Levita (a.k.a. Elye Bokher, 1469–1549), who adapted the Italian version of the chivalric romance Bevis of Hampton into a Yiddish version known as the Bovo-bukh (1541). The Hasidic movement produced Yiddish literature that is significant for religious and secular readers alike.
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The most important writer of old Yiddish literature was Elijah Levita (a.k.a. Elye Bokher, 1469–1549), who adapted the Italian version of the chivalric romance Bevis of Hampton into a Yiddish version known as the Bovo-bukh (1541). The Hasidic movement produced Yiddish literature that is significant for religious and secular readers alike.
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Tubercular Capital: American Yiddish Literature at the Sanatorium
Literature and Medicine, 2013This article investigates the scene of writing and fundraising that was supported by the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), a sanatorium founded in Denver, Colorado for indigent Jews suffering from tuberculosis. This case study investigates the coarticulation of a medical institution and the history of Yiddish literary production and ...
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“That Yiddish Has Spoken to Me”: Yiddish in Israeli Literature
Poetics Today, 2014This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish—as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a “postvernacular”—operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I present two examples of how Yiddish exerted a (largely unacknowledged ...
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The Story of Yiddish Literature
The American Journal of Psychology, 1940S. Feldman, A. A. Roback
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The Rise and fall of Soviet Yiddish literature
Soviet Jewish Affairs, 1982(1982). The Rise and fall of Soviet Yiddish literature. Soviet Jewish Affairs: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 35-44.
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