A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
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A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish
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Author : Aya Elyada
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-07
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish written by Aya Elyada and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-07 with History categories.
This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish addresses a wide array of issues, most notably Christian Hebraism, Protestant theology, early modern Yiddish culture, and the social and cultural history of language in early modern Europe. Elyada's analysis of a wide range of philological and theological works, as well as textbooks, dictionaries, ethnographical writings, and translations, demonstrates that Christian Yiddishism had implications beyond its purely linguistic and philological dimensions. Indeed, Christian texts on Yiddish reveal not only the ways in which Christians perceived and defined Jews and Judaism, but also, in a contrasting vein, how they viewed their own language, religion, and culture.
Yiddish
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-19
Yiddish written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to Yiddish for inspiration. Yiddish: Biography of a Language presents the story of this centuries-old language, the defining vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, from its origins to the present. Jeffrey Shandler tells the multifaceted history of Yiddish in the form of a biographical profile, revealing surprising insights through a series of thematic chapters. He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned. But some devoted Yiddish speakers have championed the language as embodying the essence of Jewish culture and a defining feature of a Jewish national identity. Despite predictions of the demise of Yiddish-dating back well before half of its speakers were murdered during the Holocaust-the language leads a vibrant, evolving life to this day.
Every Goy S Guide To Common Jewish Expressions
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Author : Arthur Naiman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Every Goy S Guide To Common Jewish Expressions written by Arthur Naiman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Jewish wit and humor categories.
How To Speak Jewish
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Author : Joanie Chura
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2007-10
How To Speak Jewish written by Joanie Chura and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10 with Religion categories.
Chura reveals the origin and meaning of Jewish words, Jewish customs, festivals, foods (including recipes), and just about everything else Jewish.
Born To Kvetch
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Author : Michael Wex
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 2014-05-10
Born To Kvetch written by Michael Wex and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.
For Jews, kvetching is a way of understanding the world. It is rooted, like so much of Jewish culture, in the Bible where the Israelites grumble endlessly. They complain about their problems, and complain as much about the solutions. They kvetch in Egypt and they kvetch in the desert; no matter what God does, it's wrong. In Yiddish Jews found the perfect language for their complaints. In kvetching they made complaining into an art form.Yiddish was the main spoken language for Jews for over a thousand years and its phrases, idioms and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the psychology that helped the Jews of Europe to survive unrelenting persecution. In Born to Kvetch Michael Wex looks into the origins of this surplus of disenchantment, and examines how it helped to create the abundance of striking idioms and curses in Yiddish. Michael Wex takes a serious but funny look at the language that has shaped and was shaped by those who spoke it. Featuring chapters on the Yiddish relationship to food, nature, God, death and even sex, he allows his scholarship and wit to roam freely from Sholem Aleichem to Chaucer and Elvis Presley. A treasure trove of linguistics, sociology, history and folklore -- an inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.
The Emergence Of Early Yiddish Literature
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Author : Jerold C. Frakes
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-06
The Emergence Of Early Yiddish Literature written by Jerold C. Frakes and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Whither Am I to Go?": Old Yiddish Love Song in a European Context -- 3. (Non- )Intersecting Parallel Lives: Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto -- 4. Purim Play as Political Action in Diasporic Europe and/as Ancient Persia -- 5. Vashti and Political Revolution: Gender Politics in a Topsy-Turvy World -- 6. The Political Liminality of Mordecai in Early Ashkenaz -- 7. Feudal Bridal Quest Turned on Its Jewish Head -- 8. The Other of Another Other: Yiddish Epic's Discarded Muslim Enemy -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: Elia Levita's Short Poems (English translation) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
Writing Jewish Culture
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Author : Andreas Kilcher
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Writing Jewish Culture written by Andreas Kilcher and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
“Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
The Knight Without Boundaries Yiddish And German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations
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Author : Annegret Oehme
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
The Knight Without Boundaries Yiddish And German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations written by Annegret Oehme and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with History categories.
Explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire.
Childhood Youth And Religious Minorities In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Tali Berner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-12-11
Childhood Youth And Religious Minorities In Early Modern Europe written by Tali Berner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-11 with History categories.
This edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'. Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence. Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them.
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 86
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Author : Hebrew Union College Press
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 2016-12-31
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 86 written by Hebrew Union College Press and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-31 with Social Science categories.
We are delighted to announce that Volume 86 (2015) of the Hebrew Union College Annual is now available. HUCA is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning and facilitate the dissemination of cutting-edge scholarship across the spectrum of Jewish Studies, including Bible, Rabbinics, Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, and Religion. David H. Aaron and Jason Kalman served as Editors for the current volume and Sonja Rethy as Managing Editor.