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...of humour and drama, tragedy and pathos set mostly in the Jewish communities of 19th-century eastern Europe, Russia, and the Ukraine. Translated from Yiddish by Helena Frank. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)...

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...xes, & frequently misspelled words. Common foreign phrases and expressions used in the English language: from romance & other European languages—plus Yiddish. A panoply of excitement. Useful tête-a-tête facts to have in your repertoire: great visual artists & their works, architects & architecture; classic books & their authors; major religions; Greek & Roman deities; stat...

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...ON FOREIGN PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS USED IN ENGLISH Game Suggestions – Two-person and Parlor Games Game 1 Game 2 Romance & Other European Languages Yiddish Words & Phrases Chapter 7–QUOTATIONS Game Suggestions – Two-person and Parlor Games Game 1 Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra...

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...  Swedish  Thai  Turkish  Ukrainian  Vietnamese  Welsh  Yiddish Current beta languages are:  Armenian  Azerbaijani ...

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...ver met or heard of. She could curse any man under the table in fluent, unmitigated Yiddish. And she knew more about Jewish cooking than my mother w... ...pressive silhouette. “Where you going, mein kind?” – she enquired in impeccable Yiddish – “The food’s almost ready. Let her wait a while. A litt...

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...entaries of the Sulam, and with the muffling of words and with half phrases in Yiddish, as people who understood each other fromhalfaglance.Seeingthem... ...tlyyoung- er than himself, but also with a white beard; he said a few words in Yiddish to the younger man, and then left us alone with him. The latter...

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... literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish writers, wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish throughout his career. In his work he described with sharp satirical criticism the traditional life in small Jewish towns, as well as tendencies for assimilation of learned Jews at the time. He was regarded as the gra...

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...(Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish writers, wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish throughout his career. In his work he described with sharp satirical criticism the traditional life in small Jewish towns, as well as tendencies for assimilation of learned Jews at the time. He was regarded as the gra...

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...ogmas ruling the Jewish religion, tradition and history, but is also known for his work with pre-modern Jewish myths and legends. He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish and German and has been described as the first Hebrew writer living in Berlin to be revered in the world of German letters. The book is supposed to be about Miriam, a young Jewish girl living in Eastern Europe toward ...

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...(Literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish writers, wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish throughout his career. In his work he described with sharp satirical criticism the traditional life in small Jewish towns, as well as tendencies for assimilation of learned Jews at the time. He was regarded as the gra...

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... his use of language and in literary form. With Modern Hebrew still in its infancy, Brenner improvised with an intruiging mixture of Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, English and Arabic. In his attempt to portray life realistically, his work is full of emotive punctuation and ellipses. Out Of A Gloomy Valley was his first book pulished in Warsaw 1900. It is a collection of 6 short...

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...m in Europe was to create this independent Jewish state. Herzl, who had lived as a secular, largely assimilated Jew, was fluent in neither Hebrew nor Yiddish. His lack of contact with Jewish culture and intellectual currents, and his limited contact with Jews less assimilated than he prior to hitting upon the idea of a Jewish return to Zion, led him to imagine that popular...

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... all made a rush for the cupboard. They had to argue about it at length in Yiddish and Cockney English. They concluded I had not answered them, that t...

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...e court. Some could follow the talk and ever again endorsed the speaker in Yiddish or Russian; others lis- tened with tantalized expressions, their br...