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Website: online course is part of the Workmens Circle summer program in Yiddish Studies.
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Inquiries: coordinator Baruch Blum at: bblum@circle.org and/or program director Nikolai Borodulin at: nborodulin@circle.org. Note that the course is taught entirely in Yiddish.
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Sessions: 2—3:30 PM NY time (10 AM LA, 6 PM London, 7 PM Paris/Berlin, 8 PM Tel Aviv/Vilnius etc): (1) 6 July, (2) 13 July, (3) 20 July, (4) 27 July. and (5) 3 Aug.
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Instructor: Dovid Katz. Personal website. Yiddish Cultural Dictionary.
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General background: Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Architects of Yiddishism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. A Study in Jewish Cultural History (Fairleigh Dickinson: Rutherford 1976; further editions retitled Modern Yiddish Culture). Instructor’s Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish; papers: “Hebrew, Aramaic, and the Rise of Yiddish (1985); Reflections on the 110th Anniversary of Czernowitz (2018). Relevant parts of Yiddish and Power (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke 2015); works in the fields of Yiddish linguistics and Yiddish stylistics.
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Materials for Sessions 1-2 (6 & 13 July 2021)
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Matisyohu Mieses (Mates Mizish), paper read at the Czernowitz Language Conference of 1908, first published in M. Weinreich, Z. Reyzen (eds), Di ershte yidishe shprakh-konferents (Yivo: Vilna 1931), pp. 143-193. As PDF. Entire volume available online at NYBC.
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Zalmen Reyzen’s entry for Matisyohu Mieses in Leksikon vol. 2, pp. 375-379 (Vilna 1927). As PDF.
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Materials for Session 3 (20 July 2021)
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Ber Borokhov, “Ufgabn fun der yidisher filologye” & “Biblyotek funem yidishn filolog” in Sh. Niger’s Pínkes (Vilna 1913). As PDF. Entire volume available online at NYBC.
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The same two works reprinted in standardized orthography in Nakhmen Mayzl’s Ber Borokhov: Shprakh-forshung un literatur-geshikhte (Tel Aviv 1966). As PDF. Entire volume available online at NYBC.
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Materials for Session 4 (27 July 2021)
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Readings from Nakhmen Mayzel’s edition of Ber Borokhov’s writings on Yiddish language and literature, Ber Borokhov: Shprakh-forshu.ng un literatur-geshikhte (Tel Aviv 1966). As PDF. Entire volume available online at NYBC.
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The 1925 publication of Organizatsye fun der yidisher visnshaft. Nokhem Shtif’s and Max Weinreich”s essays. Available from Goethe Universität (Frankfurt).
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Materials for Session 5 (3 August 2021)
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Max Weinreich’s Shtaplen (Berlin 1923). As PDF.
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Der fashizirter yidishizm un zayn visnshaft (Minsk 1930). As PDF.
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Solomon A. Birnbaum’s Geúle fun loshn [Geíle fin lushn] (Lodz 1931). As PDF.
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Dovid Cohen’s Yidish: Hasofo hakedoysho [The Sacred Language Yiddish]. As PDF.