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, Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish, as well as the use of Yiddish words among secular Jews in America today, (GR Ñ the whole book); Weinreich 1980: Chapter 2, Yiddish in the Context of Jewish Languages. TH, ]; Selections about Yiddish Taytsh (TBA). Hary/Judaic Languages 5 Week 8 Yiddish Tuesday, March 7 The history of Yiddish Presentation 3: Yiddish Two-page report is due Thursday, March 9 Film: A Shlemiel, the Shlamazel and the Poppess Ð Yiddish Abstract and detailed outline of Final Writing Project

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of Yiddish culture by focusing on what has become understood as its quintessential locus: the shtetl, part of the course entails reading key works by major Yiddish authors (Mendele Mokher-Sforim, of immigrant imagination in American Yiddish films. The course concludes by examining the range, and Made (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), pp. 5-25. 3: Early modern Yiddish literature on the shtetl, Weinreich, ed.,Yiddish Folktales (New York: Pantheon, 1988), pp. xix- xxxii; 222-230.  Take-home midterm

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of Yiddish culture by focusing on what has become understood as its quintessential locus: the shtetl, part of the course entails reading key works by major Yiddish authors (Mendele Mokher-Sforim, of immigrant imagination in American Yiddish films. The course concludes by examining the range, and Made (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), pp. 5-25. 3: Early modern Yiddish literature on the shtetl, Weinreich, ed.,Yiddish Folktales (New York: Pantheon, 1988), pp. xix- xxxii; 222-230.  Take-home midterm

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2016 AJS Conference Program Book

Studies Program Yiddish Book Center *We are pleased to recognize our new 2016–2017 members! 7 8, Theological Seminary) Yiddish Studies: Miriam Udel (Emory University) Modern Jewish Literature, and Partner Choice in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature SIMCHA GROSS (Yale University), Empire, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 The Yiddish Forward (Forverts, Philosophy Sapphire 411 A 1.10 Jewish Latin America after World War II Sapphire 411 B 1.11 Yiddish Culture

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2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Recipients

, & Oceania A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press Ayelet BrinnNew, the Holocaust Did to Yiddish Hannah Pollin-GalayUniversity of Pennsylvania Press In the category

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2017 AJS Conference Program Book

University, Jewish Studies Program Yiddish Book Center AffiLiATe inSTiTuTionAL memberS Association, University), Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame) Yiddish studies: Miriam Udel (Emory University, (University of Notre Dame) Yiddish studies: Miriam Udel (Emory University) Modern Jewish, —Writing and Rewriting in Hebrew and Yiddish dAnieL herSKowiTZ (Department of Theology and Religion

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Mazower-AJS_Perspectives_Fall_2021_web-18

of Harvard University. She studies modernist Hebrew and Yiddish prose of the early twentieth, was browsing donated books at my workplace, the Yiddish Book Center, when a bright illustration caught, writhe like puppets beside a pool. I turned the book over and saw a Yiddish title page—Himlen, story: the forgotten women artists of Jewish, and especially Yiddish, modernism. The frst clue, , all published in Lodz in 1921. Each slim volume of poetry—two in Yiddish, one in German

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Sample Abstracts: Sessions

, the Holocaust, and Yiddish culture. Participants’ expertise bridges Europe and the Americas, focusing, and Aramaic elements in Jewish languages such as Jewish English, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, Ladino, Grace Paley’s stories that turn to the Yiddish theater in order to break with a linear determinism, ,” studies Paley’s dialogue with the Yiddish theater’s playful reworkings of Shakespeare, suggesting, Meyer Weinshel’s paper “Selective Memory: Postwar Yiddish Anthologies from 'Another Germany

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AJS Fellowship Recipients

, and Translation in Twentieth Century Hebrew and Yiddish Writing” SHARON ZELNICKUniversity of California Los, : Rethinking Women's Role in the Development of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures" Eliav, of Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center “Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels” REBECCA, University “Gornisht iz nit fargesn, keyner iz nit fargesn: Soviet Yiddish Culture, the Holocaust, and of Our Religion’: Jewish Immigrants, Judaism, and the Yiddish Mass-Market (1900–1930)” PRATIMA

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A m e r i c a n Yiddish Poetry A Bilingual Anthology BENJAMIN HARSHAV and BARBARA HARSHAV, and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism. $35.00 paper Between Foreigners, essays on major aspects of Jewish culture: Yiddish and Hebrew litera- ture, Europe, America

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Drunkards Lying on the Floor - Jewish Contempt for Non-Jewish Lower Classes

Classes Gil Ribak PDF Socialist Yiddish poet Avrom Lesin, who grew up in Minsk in the 1870s, , the muzhik/poyer (peasant) usually embodied those low-class Gentiles. In Yiddish folklore, in numerous, was interwoven with disdain for their behavior Cartoon from the satirical Yiddish weekly Der, to it, since in many Yiddish sources, peasants seemed less threatening than the clergy or gentry, ) and is currently working on a study of the representations of Black people in Yiddish culture

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Uprising against Butchers!

appeared daily in the Yiddish and American press. On May 15, 1902, the Orthodox Yiddish newspaper, with their religiosity. And lastly, a newly found, undated Yiddish play by Morris Winchevsky, a socialist activist, journalist, and renowned Yiddish poet who was also known as the “grandfather” of Yiddish

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[Scholars Insights on Art] The Women Artists of Farlag Achrid: A Jewish Modernist Masterpiece Revealed

workplace, the Yiddish Book Center, when a bright illustration caught my eye (fig. 1). Against a dark, a pool. I turned the book over and saw a Yiddish title page—Himlen in opgrunt [Heavens in the Abyss, artists of Jewish, and especially Yiddish, modernism. Fig. 1. Illustration by Ester Karp, titles under that imprint, all published in Lodz in 1921. Each slim volume of poetry—two in Yiddish, one, director at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. His most recent article is “Farlag Achrid

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AJS_Perspectives-Protest-Issue-JFT

in the Yiddish and American press. On May 15, 1902, the Orthodox Yiddish news- paper Ta g e b l att, Yiddish play by Morris Winchevsky, a socialist activist, journalist, and renowned Yiddish poet who was also known as the “grandfather” of Yiddish proletarian literature, The Kosher Meat Strike

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2011 AJS Conference Program Book

Literature and Culture Beth Berkowitz Jewish Theological Seminary Yiddish Studies Kathryn, Israel Renwick 3.9 Angels in Pre-Modern Thought and Culture 4.8 Old Yiddish Literature Roosevelt, Intellectual Arlington 3.12 Between Yiddish and German I 4.11 Migration/Translation Wilson, 5.13 North African Jewry Arlington 5.14 Yiddish Prose Wilson 5.15 Jews, Race, Caste monday, Yiddish: Translation and Transformation Renwick 7.11 Antisemitism, Modernity, and Politics

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, Jewish thought/philosophy, and history (3 each); Yiddish literature and language, Jewish education, studies, Bible, Yiddish, and Rabbinics. (continued on pg 56) SPRING 2011 5 The Secular Issue, - ologies ranged from Communist to Zionist, from Yiddishism to assimilation. But one thing, Yiddish Book Center New Yo r k University, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, AJS Perspectives Secularizing (Jewish) Sex Naomi Seidman In the Yiddish (or Yinglish) idiom

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Secular Yiddish Schools of North America Collection, exhibition on Yiddish schools. His article describes the rich archive from which material for the exhibition was taken, and the significance of the Yiddish school movement. I wish to thank Leslie, Õ s M a k i n g J e w s M o d e rn (2004) examines the Ladino and Yiddish presses in order

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