Special Issue
Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America
A wide array of scholarly articles exploring the interrelation of the national and the transnational in Yiddish cultural production in Latin America.
May 02, 2021
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גאָרנישט
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Blog
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Interview
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Rhona Seidelman interviews the researchers of the University College London Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish Project about their public health translation work during the early stages of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Blog
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Review
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Shandler’s biography can be read as a chronicle of expanding notions of folkstimlekhkayt, from the old vos far a yid redt nisht ken yidish (what kind of [Ashkenazi] Jew doesn’t speak Yiddish) standard to the Yiddish being used and developed by cohorts of non-native speakers.
May 21, 2021
Review
Review of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, by Miriam Udel
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Review of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature, edited and translated by Miriam Udel.
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