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<p>The Lieberman Family has disjoints and disconnection at multiple generation points. Miriam Lieberman, a transmasculine person from Town, MI, got pregnant even though they thought such a basely female process was impossible after his years on testosterone. The pregnancy was viable, and so Miriam …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
My dissertation examines the Yiddish translation and reception of canonical German texts to trace the changes in the cultural value placed on German language and literature in Yiddish discourse at significant points of historical transition between 1876 and 1966. I compare German literary texts …
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Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry
… strategy through the twentieth century in both Yiddish and English, through literary and historical analyses of poets and poetic groups from the turn of the century until the 1980s. It begins by exploring the ways in which the Yiddish poet Yehoash built on the contemporary interest in the …
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The Yiddish drama : a comparative study in dramatic development
… checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) yiddishdramacomp00ravi.pdf: 5945766 bytes, checksum: 9a2716168e594713144df9144c5b7de5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1910
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Speak English, Think Yiddish-- Adaptation versus Assimilation.
<p>Critics use the words "vanished culture" to describe Isaac Bashevis Singer's work for Polish Jewry had been destroyed. However, Singer's characters survive the travails of anti-Semitism and resettle in America. This study explores Singer's Polish Jews to determine whether they assimilate into …
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Hebrew-German and Early Yiddish Literature: A Survey of Problems
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:56:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317252.pdf: 14945908 bytes, checksum: 76b84e25744cce6e06cef825f4083bda (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… is the vernacular of the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene, creating the space for a subjective, relative, and contingent relationship with Yiddish cultural practices, and that this context necessitates that critical thinking be integrated into the pedagogy and transmission of …
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Undisciplined bodies: Deviant female sexuality in Russian and Yiddish literatures, 1877-1929
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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David Fram: Lithuanian Yiddish Poet of the South African Diaspora and Illuminating Love
This thesis investigates the Yiddish poems of the South African Lithuanian immigrant David Fram. It locates Fram’s poetry and aesthetics in the context of Yiddish poetry in general and Lithuanian-South African Yiddish literature in particular. In doing this it identifies and investigates Fram’s …
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From the shtetl to the screen: The development of Yiddish theatre in performance
… a survey of Jewish drama as expressed through Yiddish Theatre in performance. It explores the origins, early trends, and significant works of Yiddish drama. The reader will gain an understanding of the ways in which the Jewish religion guided the emergence of Yiddish Theatre, the heights of …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
Following the Holocaust, when Eastern European Yiddish-language culture was all but destroyed and millions of Yiddish speakers were murdered, the language took on newsignificance in German culture. Whether it be as a symbol of proletarian solidarity in East German theater or as part of West German …
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The Musical World of Joseph Rumshinsky’s <i>Mamele</i>
… the enormous need and potential for further Yiddish theater music scholarship. There exists little Yiddish theater scholarship that addresses music in any meaningful way: scholars like David Lifson, Nahma Sandrow, and Joel Berkowitz tend to view Yiddish theater’s rich musical traditions as a …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
This dissertation demonstrates that German and Yiddish literature about Jews from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Holocaust is characterized by several discourses and tropes borrowed from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and folklore studies. The influence of these …
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21st-Century Yiddishism: The Dialectic of Czernowitz and Yiddish Pedagogical Discourse of the Present
… the manner that critical debates about teaching Yiddish in the last century both describe and prescribe the language's continuing resources of cultural and ideological resilience. It contextualizes the language's pedagogical and cultural implications in the controversies first articulated in 1908 …
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The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960
… sets out to investigate the history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Yiddish theatre first emerged in Jassy in Rumania in 1876. However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South …
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The Evolution of the Literary Neo-Hasid
… drastically around the turn of the century in Yiddish literature. This thesis tracks this change from the early Haskalah until the Holocaust. In general, depictions of the Hasid in the nineteenth century tended to be quite negative; however, the first chapter will establish a counter-narrative …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… sets out to provide a cultural analysis of 56 Yiddish folksongs which are representative of some of the bestknown folksong styles among Ashkenazi Jews. Actual research was carried out over two years, mainly in Cape Town, with short visits abroad to the United Kingdom, and to Israel. The …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… sets out to provide a cultural analysis of 56 Yiddish folksongs which are representative of some of the bestknown folksong styles among Ashkenazi Jews. Actual research was carried out over two years, mainly in Cape Town, with short visits abroad to the United Kingdom, and to Israel. The …
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Sea-Crosser
… Ziskind Gurwitz, the sea-crosser. Interludes in Yiddish hallmark this English language score of the immigrant experience to universally present its theme – surviving major life transitions. His life and travels are outlined in his autobiography, Memories of Two Generations – A Yiddish Life in …
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