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New York: Fordham University Press, 1997. — 320 p. ISBN: 0-8232-1695-0 This study explores the jewish cultural ideology known as Yiddishism through an analysis of the positions of the four most prominent participants in the First Yiddish Language Conference in Czernowitz (Cernauti), Bukovina, in 1908. During this Conference, at which the Yiddish language was proclaimed to be a...

University Of Washington Press, 2013. — 160 p. Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while...

Publication date: 2003 Number of pages: 496 ISBN: 0609806920 Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten’s masterful...

Steerforth Press, 2012. — 224 р. For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In it they produced one of the world’s most richly human cultures. Impoverished and disenfranchised in the eyes of the...