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11.) SFweekly- ?Dead Language Society? - Traveling Jewish Theatre

Over a week ago | Thursday 20th of November 2008 06:02:00 PM

For younger generations, Hebrew is most often considered the language of the Jewish people. Even just recently Aaron Davidman, artistic director of San Francisco?s Traveling Jewish Theatre, believed that ?Yiddish was for bubbes in old ...

From AkilahC

12.) Welcome to VosIzNeias

Over one day ago, -27 hours, -16 minutes ago | Sunday 04th of January 2009 09:40:00 AM

Kosher dirty language. When a sense of proportion of the problem is lost the solution becomes the problem. Let us keep this issue out of the hands of Mizrochnik rabble rousers and place it in the hands of those who can investigate and ...

From unknown

13.) Unexplored Territory: Body Language and Gesture

Over a week ago | Sunday 16th of November 2008 11:04:00 PM

Efron studied the use of gesture of two ethnic groups in New York City: Jewish Yiddish-speaking immigrants, and immigrants from southern Italy. Using drawings, photography, and film, Efron and his colleagues found some significant ...

From Debbie

14.) 333 - Next Year In Birobidzhan? Stalin?s Siberian Zion

Over a week ago | Sunday 30th of November 2008 03:57:00 PM

Valdgeym, Amurzet and other Jewish settlements were established, the Yiddish-language newspaper Birobidzhaner Stern (?Star of Birobidzhan?) was founded. But the growth of the JAO was cut short by Stalin?s purges before and after the ...

From strangemaps

15.) Why Blacks Can Rap in Yiddish?Y-Love?s Beautiful Mind ...

Over one day ago, -64 hours, -14 minutes ago | Wednesday 31st of December 2008 07:26:00 AM

Y-Love, the black Orthodox Jew who raps not only in Yiddish but also the ancient Semitic language of Aramaic as well as Hebrew, Latin, Arabic and English, collaborated with Cohen on the album. ?I rap in all the holy languages,? says ...

From admin

16.) HAROLD BLUM: "THE GLORIES OF YIDDISCH"

Over a week ago | Wednesday 12th of November 2008 03:50:00 PM

Throughout His-tory of the Yiddish Language, there is an undertone of post-Holocaust anxiety. It is particularly strong in Chapter 2, "Yiddish in the Framework of Other Jewish Languages," a kind of litany for all the tongues lost until ...

From hborrat

17.) The Glories of Yiddish

Over a week ago | Tuesday 21st of October 2008 11:16:00 PM

Weinreich's zest for Jewish languages was awesome; you can drown happily in his oceanic discussions of Marranos (converted Jews secretly practicing Judaism) using the Portuguese language, or of deviations from Arabic and Turkish idioms ...

From Randy Shiner

18.) Yiddish revival creates rift with Hebrew speakers - Israel Jewish ...

Over a week ago | Monday 03rd of November 2008 12:00:00 AM

Jewish Scene: Growing number of diaspora Jews reclaim Yiddish as cultural language, more and more families teach 'dead' language to their children as first language.

From unknown

19.) Rootless Cosmopolitan: More memes of the Yiddish Atlantis

Over a week ago | Friday 26th of December 2008 07:49:00 PM

For five hours, the only language spoken is Yiddish, the 1000-year-old amalgam of Hebrew, German and assorted European dialects that was once the lingua franca of Europe?s Jews and is enjoying a second-wave revival among 20-somethings ...

From rokhl

20.) Yiddish AND Hebrew « Occidental Israeli

Over a week ago | Friday 14th of November 2008 07:58:00 AM

Hebrew is well established enough today in Israel, and Yiddish does not present a danger to the real Jewish language, nor does it represent a movement promoting a return to the diaspora. Remembering our entire heritage is important, ...

From LB

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