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Jewish Family Names in Ukraine
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…

Contributor:

Samuel Weissenberg

Places:

Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)

Date:

1929

Subjects:

Ethnography, Demographics, Family, Jewish identity, Language and linguistics

Categories:

History, Anthologies, Lists & Catalogues
The Shtetls of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Period of Reconstruction
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The Age Composition of the Population in the Researched ShtetlekhThe problem of organizing the work resources correctly and rationally is closely connected to the age composition of the population…

Contributor:

Y. Osherovich

Places:

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belarus)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Demographics, Shtetl, Socialism, Scholarship, Politics

Categories:

Anthologies, Lists & Catalogues, History
Yiddish Folk Songs with Their Original Airs
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III. She: I can’t hide it anymore I’ll reveal my bitter, heavy heart I can’t even wait till tomorrow Because oh does it smart! He…

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Yehudah Leib Cahan

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Music, Yiddish, Performing arts, Love, Jewish languages

Categories:

Performing Arts, Anthologies, Music
Yiddish Proverbs and Idioms
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Some of the proverbs I have collected appeared previously in the yearbook Der hoyz-fraynd published by M. Spektor in Warsaw (1888–1889). The collection I am now presenting to the reader as…

Contributor:

Ignatz Bernshteyn

Places:

Leipzig, Germany

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Yiddish, Wisdom, Folklore, Ashkenazi

Categories:

History, Anthologies