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The World Convention of YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) upon the Tenth Anniversary of Its Founding
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…

Contributor:

YIVO

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1936

Subjects:

Yiddish, Scholarship, Education, Communal organizations, Writing

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Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Czernowitz Conference Speech Celebrating Yiddish
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Honored Conference: Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement. I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…

Contributor:

Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Scholarship, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Hasidism, Jewish languages

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
An Introductory Talk on the Yiddish Language
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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…

Contributor:

Franz Kafka

Places:

Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Yiddish, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics, Performing arts, Poetry

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Three Foundations (Sholem Aleichem and the Yiddish Literary Tradition)
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[ . . . ] Why is fame accorded to this particular individual, far and beyond his own time and place and why does he continue to capture new readers both in the original and in translation? [ . . . P…

Contributor:

Dov Sadan

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Date:

1959

Subjects:

Writing, Theology, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches