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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
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1961
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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…
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Jacob Samuel Bick
Places:
Brody, Austrian Empire
(Brody, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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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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Moise Gadol
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1916
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The following descriptions of Yiddish dialects have the same goal as the work published in Volume I of the Tsaytshrift [ journal]. For the most part, the material has been collected the…
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M. Veinger
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1928
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A new letter-writing guide containing many examples of various kinds of important letters written with great diligence, great sensitivity, and in the best style; these letters also include very nice…
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Hirsh Leon D’or
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1893
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
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“Eliyahu”
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1912
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Most of the stories in this collection are modern; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. [ . . .…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
Date:
1963