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Jewish Ethnopoetics
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Dedicated to my sister and friend Sarah Rappoport A people’s poetry depicts, vividly and in clear relief, the hidden inner world of national life, to which we are admitted neither by the pen of the…

Contributor:

S. An-ski

Places:

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

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Folklore, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Nationalism, Poetry

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy
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
Course Catalogue of the Baron Gintsburg Seminar on Oriental Studies
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Schedule of Lectures and Cl[asses] at the Courses of Oriental StudiesDaysTimesSubjectsLecturersSaturday8–?History of the Oral Torah [i.e., early rabbinic literature]Dr. L. S. KatsenelsonSunday8–10 a.m…

Contributor:

Zalman Shazar

Places:

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

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Education, Philosophy, Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scholarship

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Lists & Catalogues, History
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…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics, Literature