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31.) Ex Cathedra: Summer Yiddish Study and PAID Internship in Western ...

Over a week ago | Thursday 30th of October 2008 12:00:00 AM

The Steiner Summer Program for College Students at the National Yiddish Book Center selects 18 students for seven weeks of immersion in Yiddish culture. Our interns study the Yiddish language, the Jewish culture and history of Central ...

From Adam Shear

32.) Eurozine - From obscurantism to holiness - Micha Brumlik "Eastern ...

Over a week ago | Wednesday 26th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM

Up to 1913, "Eastern Jewry" was also a form of Judaism characterised by its own language, a separate Jewish idiom, Yiddish, which originated from Middle High German and incorporated words borrowed from Hebrew and the Slavic languages. ...

From Micha Brumlik

33.) Laughter Through Tears « Moment Magazine Blog

Over a week ago | Monday 29th of December 2008 12:00:00 AM

But, as Bikel reminds us, Yiddish was the soul of the Jewish people; Aleichem could not have written in any other language for precisely that reason. Despite his best efforts, its use faded. The old country may have been full of dreams ...

From jgillick

34.) Signs of the Times News for Tue, 06 Jan 2009

Over one day ago, -4 hours, -46 minutes ago | Tuesday 06th of January 2009 02:52:00 AM

Sevivon, in Hebrew (A dreidel in Yiddish) is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Somebody, in the Israeli army, who apparently feels nostalgic about his childhood, decided that if Israeli kids ...

From Signs of the Times

35.) New Jewish Education: Are we teaching "Hebrew" or "Israeli?"

Over one day ago, -50 hours, -42 minutes ago | Thursday 01st of January 2009 12:00:00 AM

The Zionist revivers of the language, beginning at the end of the 19th century, sought to reinstate a pure Hebrew based on the language of the Bible (not the rabbis!). But, since they were native speakers of Yiddish and Slavic languages ...

From Saul Kaiserman

36.) Financial Meltdown Decolonising Asian Minds

Over one day ago, -50 hours, -42 minutes ago | Thursday 01st of January 2009 12:00:00 AM

micro ? Yes, I understand the roots of Yiddish. That doesn?t change the fact that ?Semite? can and does also mean ?Jew? in some contexts. Very few of my Jewish friends speak Yiddish (it?s a colloquial spoken language, not the written ...

From unknown

37.) A One Two Punch

Over a week ago | Monday 10th of November 2008 08:33:00 AM

... authentic Judaism and not let foreign influences in that will dilute the purity of Judaism as they see it. But their means are in this case counter-productive and in essence do no such thing. They preserve only the Yiddish language. ...

From Harry Maryles

38.) Jewish Rantings: The Mystery Of the Sarvejo Haggadah

Over one day ago, -14 hours, -51 minutes ago | Saturday 03rd of January 2009 11:45:00 AM

They must have been told in Ladino language, the language of Cervantes and later in Italian, probably in Bosnian too or in some other language. The images are so inspiring that it is not at all difficult to imagine the storyteller ...

From Seaside Book worm

39.) Review of "The Jewish Century" by Yuri Slezkine

Over a week ago | Friday 14th of November 2008 04:55:00 PM

Samuil Agursky, a top official in the Party's Jewish Section and the greatest Soviet enemy of the Hebrew language and Zionism, raised his son Melib (who did not speak Yiddish) on "Heine, Diderot, Shakespeare, Schiller, Plautus, Goethe, ...

From Adi18

40.) Forty Questions: Tales From The Old Country and Beyond, Part 35

Over a week ago | Friday 26th of December 2008 06:20:00 AM

It's embedded in Yiddish language from the slang for a dummy, goyisher kopf, which means the the brains of a Gentile, to the slang for a group of teenage Gentile boys, schoortzim, or dirty ones. Christmas was jokingly called Kratzmas, ...

From fortyquestions

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