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Oxford Books and Magazines Published Entirely in Yiddish (1990-1998)



49 publications in Yiddish scholarship, stylistics, and literature coming out of 1990s Oxford

A project to scan them all (OCR searchable) and provide online gratis

(IN PROGRESS. UPDATED: 24 NOV. 2024; ADDITIONAL LINKS & CORRECTIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED. PLEASE NOTE ALSO THAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE OXFORD PUBLICATIONS ON YIDDISH STUDIES ARE NOT INCLUDED HERE; THEY ARE BEING SCANNED AS AND WHEN RESOURCES PERMIT AND WILL BE POSTED SEPARATELY IN DUE COURSE.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: WITH THANKS TO DAN RABINOWITZ & MENACHEM BUTLER FOR INSPIRING THESE SCANNINGS AND UPLOADS.

See also:

Keepsakes of Yiddish at Oxford (1978-1996)


45 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Oxford Yiddish (Oksforder Yidish)

Collective volumes for academic studies in Yiddish linguistics, literary history and folklore

(vols. 1-3, 1990–1995)

Volume 1 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1990, 401 + xi pp). English title and contents pp. Invitation to London book launch.

Volume 2 (Harwood Academic Publishers & Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1991, 313 + xi pp). English title and contents pp.

Volume 3 (Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; 2nd print: Oksforder Yidish Press & Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, 1995, 984 columns folio + xvi pp). English title and contents pp.

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Issues 1 – 35 of the Oxford Yiddish Monthly ‘Yiddish Pen’ (די פּען), 1994-1998



YIDDISH AFFAIRS | YIDDISH AT OXFORD | DOCUMENTS 

Note: For English table-of-contents pages, please scroll to the end of each PDF. Scans of contents and title pages only (for issues 1-27) are available here and here.

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Issues 1 – 35 of the Oxford Yiddish-in-Yiddish Magazine ‘Yiddish Pen’ (די פּען), 1998 — 1997



YIDDISH AFFAIRS | YIDDISH AT OXFORD | DOCUMENTS 

Note: For English table-of-contents pages, please scroll to the end of each PDF. Scans of contents and title pages only (for issues 1-27) are available here and here.

Yiddish Pen 1

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Defending the History of: Yiddish at Oxford



OPINION  |  YIDDISH AFFAIRS

Under the leadership of the visionary founder of modern Jewish studies at Oxford University, Dr. David Patterson (1922–2005), the academic research and teaching institution which he created became for around two decades a major world center of Yiddish studies. That institution was the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies (since renamed the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies). Indeed, it was Yiddish in the last quarter of the twentieth century that catapulted the Centre from just another sleepy Hebrew studies unit to a world-class center in advanced studies, including successful doctoral programs that provided a generation of (today’s) professors, and seminal publications in English and Yiddish that will be there for centuries to come. The kind of thing that the current twenty-first century incarnation of the same institution might well look back on with pride and even some nostalgia.

Among today’s scholars, educators, authors and personalities in the wider arts who were attracted to come and study Yiddish by our team, enabled at each stage by Dr. Patterson (in an array of settings ranging from weekly classes through summer courses to doctoral programs) at the Centre between the 1970s and 1990s are Prof. Marion Aptroot, Dr. Helen Beer, Prof. James Dingley, Prof. Jennifer Dowling, Prof. Gennady Estraikh, Mr. Elliot Gertel, Prof. Christopher Hutton, Dr. Devra Kay, Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler, Ms. Miri Koral, Dr. Holger Nath, Prof. Ritchie Robertson, Ms. Elinor Robinson, Mr. David Schneider, Prof. Robert Moses Shapiro, Prof. Astrid Starck, Dr. Heather Valencia, Prof. Nina Warnke, Mr. Tim Whewell, among many others. The first BA option in Yiddish was introduced at Oxford University (Faculty of Modern Languages) in 1982, and the doctoral program was inaugurated in 1984. After some years it was awarded a citation of excellence by the Modern Languages Faculty, signed by its then head. These were all achievements of historic order for the small, fragile and frankly still struggling academic field of Yiddish.

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In Reply to Summertime Yiddishists in Vilnius



VILNIUSThe following Facebook post, on the page of DH’s editor, issued today, is republished below. For context and a fuller picture, see DH’s recent report on the manipulation of Yiddish by the state’s commission reponsible for promoting the Double Genocide movement in the European Parliament and beyond.

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