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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 groyser, 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 pool. I turned the book over and saw a Yiddish title page—Himlen in opgrunt [Heavens, 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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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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Digital Media Workshop

. Yiddish in Twenty-First Century Eastern Europe: A Video Archive Anya Quilitzsch (Indiana University) and Jeffrey Veidlinger (Indiana University) The Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish, . The archive consists of nearly 400 interviews, conducted primarily in Yiddish, and mostly in small towns

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........................................................ 32 Yiddish / Jewish Cultures: A Graduate Student Conference Shiri Goren, Hannah, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Yiddish / Jewish Cultures, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage Jeffrey Veidlinger An award-winning history of the rise and fall of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. paper $24.95 Gender, J u, in paperback Making Jews Modern The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires

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and National Yiddish Book Center), Vanessa Ochs (University of Virginia), Rona Sheramy (AJS), Adam Teller, Program National Yiddish Book Center Northwestern University, Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies

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News & Events

: Sonia Gollance appointed Lecturer in Yiddish at University, : Goldie Morgentaler's Translation of Confessions of a Yiddish Writer wins

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Exhibit

» Curators of Judaica and Hebraica » Art historians » Hebrew and Yiddish teachers, – modern, medieval • Bible studies • Rabbinic literature • Yiddish studies • Hebrew studies

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Eddy Portnoy

as a locus for quirky Yiddish brilliance. After curating an exhibit there on a whim, I was offered full, to work in the Yiddish belly of the beast, the most amazing archive of such material anywhere, but I

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AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowships 2022-23 Recipients

Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels” REBECCA POLLACK, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate, fargesn: Soviet Yiddish Culture, the Holocaust, and Networks of Memory, 1941–1991” BEATA SZYMKOW, and of Our Religion’: Jewish Immigrants, Judaism, and the Yiddish Mass-Market (1900–1930)” PRATIMA, on the Latin American Yiddish Stage (1900–1939)” 2018-2019 AJS Dissertation Completion, : The Yiddish Press’s Encounter with the United States GEOFFREY LEVIN, Department of Hebrew and Judaic

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AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowships 2021-22 Recipients

Center “Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels” REBECCA POLLACK, Department of Art, fargesn, keyner iz nit fargesn: Soviet Yiddish Culture, the Holocaust, and Networks of Memory, 1941, be Proud of Our Torah and of Our Religion’: Jewish Immigrants, Judaism, and the Yiddish Mass-Market, : Prostitution and Protest on the Latin American Yiddish Stage (1900–1939)” 2018-2019 AJS, of PennsylvaniaMiss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter with the United States GEOFFREY LEVIN, Department

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B'nai Binge Streaming Programming List for November 30 by Laurie Baron and Beth Chernoff

/news-events/all-events.detail.html/97313-21794308.html 12 pmNick Underwood, “Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France,” YIVO, https://www.yivo.org/Yiddish-Paris 12 pmDebra Kaplan

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What is Jewish Studies

, and contemporary; Jewish literatures and linguistics in Hebrew, Yiddish, and the other Judaic and vernacular

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News from the AJS Film Committee Fall 2021

Join Donate Login News from the AJS Film Committee The Yiddish Jazz Singer, of an outstanding Yiddish drama, Overture to Glory, directed by Max Nosseck in 1940. Based, compilation The Jewish Soul: Ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema, with commentary by film critic Jim Hoberman, musician and scholar Eve Sicular, and the Yiddish actor, director, and translator Allen Lewis

https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/publications-research/ajs-member-news/ajs-member-news-december-2021/news-from-the-ajs-film-committee-fall-2021

finkelstein

 ENGL 351 / 551 Jewish American Literature Dr. Norman Finkelstein Hinkle 239; 745-2041 finkel@xavier.edu Office Hours: T 11:30-12:30, W 6:00-6:45 & by app’t. Texts: Ozick, The Shawl Roth, The Plot Against America Rothenberg, Triptych Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Reich, My, Against America Comparative paper due (351) Oct. 7 Triptych Oct. 14 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Take-home mid-term exam due Oct. 21 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Oct. 28 The Yiddish Policemen’s

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AJS-Perspectives-Hate-Issue-ribak

 46 | AJS PERSPECTIVES | SPRING 2020 Drunkards Ly i n g o n t h e F l o o r : Jewish Contempt for Non-Jewish Lower Classes Gil Ribak Socialist Yiddish poet Avrom Lesin, who grew up in Minsk, -class Gentiles. In Yiddish folklore, in numerous memoirs and autobiographies, and in the Jewish press, has much truth to it, since in many Yiddish sources, peasants seemed less threatening than, people in Yiddish culture

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AJS-Perspectives-Unfinished-Johnson

was hoping to fnd materials that could shed light on the early life and work of the Yiddish poet, a leading and contentious fgure in the development of Yiddish modernism. Before his immigration, however, dissertation concerns the relationship between German- and Yiddish-language literature, fellowship from the Yiddish Book Center, for which he is translating the late poetry of Moyshe-Leyb

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