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Author : Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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A selection of 15 papers from the October 1996 gathering of the annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska. The topics include anger and homecoming in 20th-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture and urban landscape in interwar Vilna, the Yiddish theater in Omaha from 1919 to 1969, and the metamorphosis of the matriarchs in modern Yiddish poetry. No index. Distributed in the US by Fordham University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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A selection of 15 papers from the October 1996 gathering of the annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska. The topics include anger and homecoming in 20th-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture and urban landscape in interwar Vilna, the Yiddish theater in Omaha from 1919 to 1969, and the metamorphosis of the matriarchs in modern Yiddish poetry. No index. Distributed in the US by Fordham University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1139867385

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This book is the first history of YIVO, the original center for Yiddish scholarship. Founded by a group of Eastern European intellectuals after World War I, YIVO became both the apex of secular Yiddish culture and the premier institution of Diaspora Nationalism, which fought for Jewish rights throughout the world at a time of rising anti-Semitism. From its headquarters in Vilna, Lithuania, YIVO tried to balance scholarly objectivity with its commitment to the Jewish masses. Using newly recovered documents that were believed destroyed by Hitler and Stalin, Cecile Esther Kuznitz tells for the first time the compelling story of how these scholars built a world-renowned institution despite dire poverty and anti-Semitism. She raises new questions about the relationship between Jewish cultural and political work, and analyzes how nationalism arises outside of state power.

Author : Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107014204

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This book is the first history of YIVO, an important center for Jewish culture and politics in the early twentieth century.

Author : Benjamin Hary
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 150150455X

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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780300108873

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Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich's copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.

Author : Emanuel S. Goldsmith
Publisher : Ulverscroft
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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The phenomenal rise of Yiddish language and culture is one of the most interesting and colorful sagas of modern Jewish history. In this significant book, Dr. Goldsmith relates the growth of Yiddish to the explosion of Jewish literature, the surge of Zionism, and the popularity of Socialism that impacted upon the Jews of Europe, America, and Israel. Including a study of the major personalities associated with the first Yiddish Language Conference (1908, ) this is the first comprehensive work to explore a movement that affected the lives of millions of Jews before the Holocaust and continues to influence Jewish life throughout the world.

Author : Michael Wex
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0061340847

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A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably reflect the mind-set that has enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution . . . and enables them to kvetch about it! Michael Wex—professor, scholar, translator, novelist, and performer—takes a serious yet unceasingly fun and funny look at this remarkable kvetch-full tongue that has both shaped and has been shaped by those who speak it. Featuring chapters on curse words, food, sex, and even death, he allows his lively wit and scholarship to roam freely from Sholem Aleichem to Chaucer to Elvis. Perhaps only a khokhem be-layle (a fool, literally a "sage at night," when there's no one around to see) would care to pass up this endearing and enriching treasure trove of linguistics, sociology, history, and folklore—an intriguing appreciation of a unique and enduring language and an equally fascinating culture.