Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...

contemporary Yiddish art and literature, as well as preservation of Yiddish culture and publication of Yiddish classics, both in Yiddish and in Hebrew...

"Yiddish language" without qualification are normally taken to apply to Eastern Yiddish, unless the subject under consideration is Yiddish literature prior...

Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. His name was variously transliterated as Moykher, Sfarim,Seforim...

Jewish literature has flowered with the modern emergence of secular Jewish culture. Modern Jewish literature has included Yiddish literature, Judeo-Tat...

/waɪs/) (Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor...

be inserted as a set phrase in languages other than Hebrew, including Yiddish, for example, "Dos iz a kol-boynik, yemakh-shmoy!" ("He is a scoundrel...

consortium. The Yiddish Book Center was founded in 1980 by Aaron Lansky, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student of Yiddish literature and, as of 2016[update]...

sin". Ruth Wisse, a scholar of Yiddish literature, wrote that Blinken was highly popular among his own generation of Yiddish-speaking Americans but that...

Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...

symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...

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Anti-Yiddish sentiment is a negative attitude towards Yiddish. Opposition to Yiddish may be motivated by antisemitism. Jewish opposition to Yiddish has...

list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because...

English of Yiddish literature. Leftwich was born in the Netherlands. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry...

Christianity beginning in 1508. The red Jews are a popular theme in later Yiddish literature, undergoing various mutations - including ultimately e.g. late 19th...

History of Yiddish Literature, Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY, 1972, ISBN 0-8246-0124-6. Introduction to Old Yiddish literature By Jean Baumgarten...

YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ, pronounced [jiˈvɔ]) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern...

Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging, although not always, term for a gentile woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin...

new immigrants. Yiddish authors in Israel are organized in a Yiddish authors' association. The presence of Arabic-language literature in Israeli society...

The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. They are awarded by the Jewish Book Council, a New-York based non-profit...

There are numerous Biblical translations in Yiddish because it constituted the very beginning of its literature along with other the religious texts such...

to fine literature. Greenberg is considered the most significant representative of modernist Expressionism in Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Uri Zvi...

Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements...

sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature. He was also notable among early Yiddish playwrights in having stronger connections to...

Isaac Leib Peretz (Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec, Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ) (May 18, 1852 – April 3, 1915), also sometimes written Yitskhok Leybush Peretz...

playwrights List of Jewish American poets Secular Jewish culture Yiddish literature "Emma Lazarus | Jewish-American, Immigrant Rights, Poet Laureate |...

The Vilna Troupe (Yiddish: Vilner trupe ווילנער טרופע; Lithuanian: Vilniaus trupė; Polish: Trupa Wileńska; Romanian: Trupa din Vilna), also known as Fareyn...

The Bovo-Bukh ("Bovo book", Yiddish: בָּבָא-בּוּך, בּאָבאָ-בּוּך‎, German transliteration: Baba Buch), also known as Bovo of Antona (בָּבָא דְאַנְטוּנָא‎[spelling...

Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanized: Avrom Sutskever; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The...