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  2. League for Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (Indiana University Press/League for Yiddish, 2016; second revised and expanded edition, 2021). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] "The dictionary is the most comprehensive of its kind (English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English), and is co-edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath and Dr. Paul (Hershl) Glasser , a Yiddish linguist and ...

  3. Menashe (film) - Wikipedia

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    Menashe (Menashe Lustig []), a recently widowed Hasidic Jewish man, tries to regain custody of his ten-year-old son Rieven (Ruben Niborski).Rieven is living with his aunt and uncle (Eizik, Yoel Weisshaus) per a ruling by the Rabbi (Meyer Schwartz) that Menashe must first remarry to provide a proper home for his son.

  4. Traduire - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish Traduire is a 2011 French independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurith Aviv . It was released on DVD by Éditions Montparnasse [ fr ] , as part of a boxset, also including Misafa Lesafa ( 2004 ) and Langue sacrée, langue parlée ( 2008 ).

  5. Alexander Harkavy - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Harkavy (Yiddish: אַלכּסנדר האַרקאַווי, Russian: Александр Гаркави, Aleksandr Garkavi; May 5, 1863 at Novogrudok (Yiddish: נאַוואַרעדאָק), Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Navahrudak, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus) - 1939 in New York City) was a Russian-born American writer ...

  6. Elye Spivak - Wikipedia

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    While at the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture, Spivak put forward the idea of compiling a comprehensive Russian-Yiddish dictionary, a project which began in 1935. [10] Though completed in 1948, the dictionary's manuscript and other research materials were confiscated by the Soviet security organs upon the arrest of Spivak and its other ...

  7. Vaybertaytsh - Wikipedia

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    Writing in vaybertaytsh from the first page of the Konstanzer Chumash, the first Yiddish translation of the Chumash (c. 1544). Unlike Yiddish block or square print (the script used in modern Hebrew, with the addition of special characters and diacritics), vaybertaytsh is a semi-cursive script, akin to the "Rashi" script.

  8. Plush-Like Curly Kittens Got Adopted In Record Time Due To ...

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    Image credits: Scituate Animal Shelter of Massachusetts / Facebook When they were posted up for adoption online, it took a shelter’s record time of 13 minutes to find them a new home as ...

  9. Mordechai Tsanin - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary is notable as the first Yiddish-Hebrew (and Hebrew-Yiddish) dictionary that reflects modern Hebrew usage. [3] Reviews of it, however, have been mixed. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] In the words of one [ 9 ] reviewer, "The author was a journalist and not a linguist or possessed of any deep knowledge of historical linguistics or of Yiddish itself ...