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Sheymes

Author : Elizabeth Wajnberg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596968
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Sheymes written by Elizabeth Wajnberg and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Elizabeth Wajnberg was born in postwar Poland. Evoking the past from the present, she gathers her family's history as it moves from the prewar years through the war to their arrival in Montreal. She traces through their own voices the memories that echo and have shaped their lives to present a portrait of a family whose bonds were both soldered and sundered by their wartime experiences. The people in this book are living sheymes - fragments of a holy book that are not to be discarded when old, but buried in consecrated ground. While embodying the world they have lost and the remnants that they carried with them, Wajnberg follows her family through their last decades. As her parents age and the author becomes their active and anxious caregiver, the book changes its perspective to accent the present - now the scene of trauma - when her parents join another demeaned group. Knowing their history, she senses that society turns away from the elderly the same way it looks away from the details of the Holocaust. Rich with humour and Yiddish idioms, Sheymes is a compelling and beautifully written memoir. In its illumination of the legacy of the Holocaust and the universal aspect of Jewish suffering, it resonates far beyond her family.

The Joys of Hebrew

Author : Lewis Glinert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282177
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Joys of Hebrew written by Lewis Glinert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When do you say mazal tov? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these questions and hundreds of others--all in clear English--in this remarkable collection of the best known, most loved Hebrew words and phrases in the English speaking world. From Acharon to Zohar, this informative and often humorous dictionary features over six hundred Hebrew words and expressions arranged in alphabetical order (the Roman alphabet is used throughout, as well as Hebrew head words). The first such guide to Hebrew, this volume is more than a mere lexicon--it is a jubilant celebration of Hebrew itself, a treasure trove of Jewish wit, wisdom, culture, and tradition. Lewis Glinert provides a concise definition of each entry, and then illustrates the word's usage with generous passages from the Bible and the Talmud, the prayers and the sayings of famous rabbis, the razor's edge of Jewish humor, excerpts from the work of Elie Wiesel, Adin Steinsaltz, S.Y. Agnon, Martin Buber, Naomi Shemer and other contemporary writers, folklore from all over the Jewish world, and colorful slices of modern Israeli life. There are words directly related to the practice of religion, such as amida (a prayer said standing, under one's breath, essentially a cry for help--for wisdom, health, peace, prosperity, and so forth) as well as the names of all the Jewish holy days and religious customs; words from everyday Jewish experience, such peot (the long sidecurls customarily worn by the Chasidim); many words familiar from their use in Israel, such as rega (literally, "one moment," it is the Israeli equivalent of Mexico's mañana) or miluim (army reserve service); and many traditional sayings, such as Tsarat rabim chatsi nechama ("A public woe is half a comfort"). In addition, Glinert provides at the back of the book an alphabetical list of familiar biblical names in English, Sephardi/Israeli Hebrew, and Ashkenazi Hebrew. This celebration of Hebrew language and culture is a joy to read and to use. Everyone from Bible students to collectors of Judaica, from Woody Allen fans to people planning a journey to the Holy Land, will be delighted by this informative volume.

Readings in the Sociology of Language

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805375
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Sociology of Language written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Yiddish Language

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300109603
Total Pages : 1743 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book History of the Yiddish Language written by Max Weinreich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

Author : Abigail Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317181263
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America written by Abigail Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs, well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century, presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.

Yidishkayt and Yiddish

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Yidishkayt and Yiddish written by Max Weinreich and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indexes

Author : Scottish Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Indexes written by Scottish Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homes of the Past

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253070007
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Homes of the Past written by Jeffrey Shandler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they made a remarkable decision: they would create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended. With insight and clarity, Jeffrey Shandler draws upon the surviving archival sources to tell the story of the purpose, development, and ultimate fate of the Museum of the Homes of the Past. Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.

Index to Register of Deeds Preserved in H.M. General Register House

Author : Scottish Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index to Register of Deeds Preserved in H.M. General Register House written by Scottish Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Word-Formation

Author : Peter O. Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393549
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Word-Formation written by Peter O. Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

The Shtetl Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shtetl Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.

The Shtetl Book

Author : Diane K. Roskies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shtetl Book written by Diane K. Roskies and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.

The Third Pillar

Author : Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812243161
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Third Pillar written by Geoffrey Hartman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we be excluded from the history and literature of Judaism because the world of our fathers and mothers became a secularized one, Geoffrey Hartman asks, or because religious literacy, whatever our faith or community affiliation, has gone into relative decline? And why, he asks, do those who have no trouble finding pleasure and intellectual profit in the Greek and Roman classics or in the literary and artistic productions of two millennia of Western Christianity not easily find equal resonance and reward in the major texts in the Jewish tradition? For if Christianity and the classical inheritance stand as two pillars of Western civilization, surely the third pillar is the Jewish tradition. In The Third Pillar Hartman, one of the most influential scholars and teachers of English and comparative literature of recent decades, has brought together some of the most important and eloquent essays he has written since the 1980s on the major texts of the Jewish tradition. In three groupings, on Bible, Midrash, and education, Hartman clarifies the relevance of contemporary literary criticism to canonical texts in the tradition, while demonstrating what has been—and what still remains to be—learned from the Midrash to enrich the interpretation of commentary and art, sacred or secular. "The map of the discipline [of Jewish studies] is still being drawn," Hartman writes. "Barely known areas tempt the explorer, and major reinterpretations remain possible. This third pillar of our civilization . . . is only now being fully excavated: we have discovered something but not everything about its structure and upholding function."

A Frog Under the Tongue

Author : Marek Tuszewicki
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859066
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Frog Under the Tongue written by Marek Tuszewicki and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk Prize Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the ideas of traditional Ashkenazi culture with the heritage of medieval and early modern medicine. Holy rabbis and faith healers, as well as Jewish barbers, innkeepers, and pedlars, all dispensed cures, purveyed folk remedies for different ailments, and gave hope to the sick and their families based on kabbalah, numerology, prayer, and magical Hebrew formulas. Nevertheless, as new sources of knowledge penetrated the traditional world, modern medical ideas gained widespread support. Jews became court physicians to the nobility, and when the universities were opened up to them many also qualified as doctors. At every stage, medicine proved an important field for cross-cultural contacts. Jewish historians and scholars of folk medicine alike will discover here fascinating sources never previously explored—manuscripts, printed publications, and memoirs in Yiddish and Hebrew but also in Polish, English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. Marek Tuszewicki's careful study of these documents has teased out therapeutic advice, recipes, magical incantations, kabbalistic methods, and practical techniques, together with the ethical considerations that such approaches entailed. His research fills a gap in the study of folk medicine in eastern Europe, shedding light on little-known aspects of Ashkenazi culture, and on how the need to treat sickness brought Jews and their neighbours together.

A Bridge of Longing

Author : David G. Roskies
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674081406
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book A Bridge of Longing written by David G. Roskies and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text describes how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their hopes and fears in the languages of tradition. It suggests that there lies an aesthetic and moral sensibility totally at odds with Jewish humour and piety.

Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Author : Zvi Kolitz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307797805
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Yosl Rakover Talks to God written by Zvi Kolitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying Jew's last words to God -- a text that is regarded as the greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust -- the story of how it came to be written, and the afterlife of both the author and his creation. As the German tanks destroy the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few remaining fighters, Yosl Rakover, writes out his last words to God, seals the text in a glass bottle, and thrusts it into the rubble before preparing to die. The text surfaces in Europe in the 1950s, is passed from hand to hand, is broadcast on Radio Berlin -- where it is acclaimed by Thomas Mann as a religious masterpiece -- is anthologized and translated into many languages. But what is hailed as the most important testament of the Holocaust is in fact a short story, written in 1946 for a Yiddish newspaper by a remarkable young Jew, Zvi Kolitz, in Buenos Aires, where he had gone to raise money for the Jewish underground in the struggle to establish the State of Israel. The Borgesian story of what happened to the text and to Kolitz in the fifty years since, and the detective work of German journalist Paul Badde that resulted in their eventual rejoining, form the second part of this fascinating book. And in an afterword, the great French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas's meditation on the text is answered in a commentary by Leon Wieseltier. Already an acclaimed bestseller in Europe, Yosl Rakover Talks to God restores a blazing artifact of twentieth-century writing to its true setting.

Modern English-Yiddish Dictionary

Author : Uriel Weinreich
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805205756
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Modern English-Yiddish Dictionary written by Uriel Weinreich and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1987-12-27 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions, and its precise presentation of Yiddish grammar and pronunciation. It is the work of one of this century’s most admired scholars of Yiddish language and culture, and took twenty years to complete. Comprehensive and reliable, the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary is the standard reference guide to contemporary Yiddish, an essential volume for the beginner and the expert alike.