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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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The very lack of a self-contained territory that has so far disqualified the study of Yiddish from NDEA [the National Defense Education Act] support endows Ashkenazic Jewry with exemplary value for a…
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Uriel Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1963
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What does it mean to study women’s religion? How are we to define our subject matter? How are we to understand the relationship of the history of women’s religious life and practice to the history of…
Contributor:
Chava Weissler
Places:
Bethlehem, United States of America
Date:
1998
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language has been assembled on the basis of inclusiveness—that is to say, as a dictionary which attempts to record and include all the words of the Yiddish language…
Contributor:
Yudl Mark, Judah A. Joffe
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1961
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I remember the moment when it dawned on me that my father did not impress the world at large as a powerful figure. We were at a camera store on the Plaza—a faux-Andalusian shopping district that…
Contributor:
Calvin Trillin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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lemoshl: for example
di kurve the whore
a woman who acknowledges her passions
di yidene the Jewess the Jewish woman
ignorant overbearing
let’s face it: every woman is one
di yente the gossip…
Contributor:
Irena Klepfisz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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for Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), performer on the Yiddish stage
Bewildering clarity of tongues:
names you never heard, food
you never ate, a wild dance
you never learned, light hanging
in the sky…
Contributor:
Stephen Bluestone
Places:
Macon, United States of America
Date:
1995
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[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.
Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I…
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Cynthia Ozick
Date:
1970
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A woman named Bella stayed behind to speak to me. Her hair was carefully waved, touched with streaks of blond, her eyes round and blue. She was not one of the shapeless old, but kept waist, hips, and…
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Norma Rosen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1996