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"Rezension zu: B. Trachtenberg: The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish". H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (in German) Schachter, Allison (2022). "Rev. of The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish" (PDF). PaRDeS: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany. 28: 121– 125.
Essays detail Jewish communities in different European countries. The largest essay in the volume, Avrom Menes's 150-column "The Eastern European Age in Jewish History", is a broad overview of Jewish history in Eastern Europe since the medieval period. The shortest, a history of the Jews in Luxembourg, is only four columns. [17]
Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.
In 1975, the printer Ahrne Thorne became editor and curated the paper once again into a position of standing in the Yiddish world, with articles on topics including economics, international affairs, labor, and literature. But these gains were short-lived. As the Yiddish-speaking population grew gray, many Jewish anarchist organizations dissolved.
Raphael Abramovitch, chief organizer of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye project. In March 1930, the editor Nakhmen Meisel published a call for a "great Yiddish encyclopedia" in the literary weekly Literarishe Bleter, arguing that the success of the YIVO, a major Yiddish academic institute, could lay the groundwork for a general-purpose Jewish encyclopedia where previous attempts had failed. [5]
In particular, the book focuses on a few episodes of this history in roughly chronological order: the first two chapters document the emergence of socialist politics in Jewish communities in Eastern Europe against a backdrop of religious traditionalism, rapid industrialization, anti-Jewish violence sanctioned by the Russian Empire, and the ...
Alexander Borisovich Beider (Russian: Александр Борисович Бейдер, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbejdʲɪr]; Yiddish: אלכסנדר ביידער, IPA: [alɛkˈsandər ˈbɛɪdər]) is the author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish.
The Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, movement that arose in the late 18th century played a large role in rejecting Yiddish as a Jewish language.However, many maskilim, particularly in the Russian Empire, expanded the Yiddish press to use it as a tool to spread their enlightenment ideas, thereby building a platform for future Yiddishists.