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On the Language of the Jews Who Lived in Ancient Russia
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In our previous studies we attempted to prove that the first Jews in southern Russian were not Germanic, as is claimed by Graetz and other German scholars, but rather Bosporan and Asian, as they…

Contributor:

Abraham Harkavy

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1865

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Language & Linguistics
The Role of Linguistic Folklore in Yiddish Literature
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Linguistic folklore in literature is a component of realistic style. At first, new or renewed literature is usually realistic. The same reasons that introduce…

Contributor:

Meir Viner

Places:

Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1928

Subjects:

Yiddish, Writing, Language and linguistics

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
What Was the Holocaust?
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Is the Holocaust definable? Is it desirable to define it? After all, definitions are abstractions from reality and are useful only insofar as they help us to better understand the world around us. Any…

Contributor:

Yehuda Bauer

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Holocaust, Genocide, Racism, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing