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Recent In Yiddish & On Yiddish . . .

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Defending History

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WAS THE DEC. 2014 YIVO BANQUET REALLY ABOUT YIDDISH? (AS PDF).

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR LEAVES FOR POSTERITY A RECORDING IN VILNA YIDDISH OF HIS 2015 LETTER TO THE HEAD OF YIVO

THE NEW YIDDISH TEACHING POSITIONS IN VILNIUS: Background; Chronology (reverse); Milan Chersonski; Daniel Galay (Leyvik House); Olegas Poliakovas; Regina Kopilevich. But who is the mystery donor?

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אויף יידיש:

די זיבעציק יאָריקע דעקלאַראַציע

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אַ ווירטועל יידיש מוזייעלע פון דער יידישער ווילנע

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צו דער זאָרגלאָזער דעקאָנסטרוקציע פון מאַקס וויינרייכן. און שוין ווייטער קונקל⸗מונקל אויפן אָפּגעשוואַכטן געביט פון יידיש; אַן ענטפער אויף צוויי אַרטיקלען וועגן יידיש אין באַוואוסטן אינטערנעט זשורנאַל „טאַבלעט“

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צו דער מעטאָדאָלאָגיע פון דער היסטאָרישער יידישער לינגוויסטיק

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ריטעם, און מלעיל און מלרע אין דער ווילנער העברעאישער פּאָעזיע אין ניינצעטן יאָרהונדערט

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In English:

Yiddish and Power (Palgrave MacMillan 2015)

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Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (2014)

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Knaanic in the Medieval and Modern Scholarly Imagination

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Mystery of the Eight-Pointed Western Litvak (Zámeter) Symbol on Jewish Gravestones

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The Yiddish Names of Lithuanian Towns

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Index to Virtual Yiddish Mini Museum of Old Jewish Vilna

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