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A Dictionary of Political Terms
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…

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Unknown

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

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Rebellion, Dictionaries

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Literature, Language & Linguistics
Page of printed Yiddish text, with alphabet chart on left side.
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

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History, Historical Writing, Language & Linguistics
The Hit of the Century
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

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Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics, Literature