“…Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was-an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel''s work. …”

“…In particular, he was writing this ongoing series about how bad most user interfaces were—mostly because programmers by and large knew, as Joel and I would say, using the same Yiddish–derived NYC vernacular that we both share, “bupkis” about what users really want. …”

“…It shows how Bucharest was connected to places such as Berlin, Paris, Riga and Chicago through modern design and experimental Yiddish theatre, and argues that the Schule Reimann was more influential in Romania than the Bauhaus. …”

“…"Despite the importance of historical and contemporary migration to the American Jewish community, popular awareness of the diversity and complexity of the American Jewish migration legacy is limited and largely focused upon Yiddish-speaking Jews who left the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1920 to settle in eastern and midwestern cities. …”

“…Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials, Dreams of Nationhood traces the ideological and material support provided to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, located in the far east of the Soviet Union, by two American Jewish Communist-led organizations, the ICOR and the American Birobidzhan Committee. …”

“…Topics include subversive readings of biblical texts; reappraisal of rabbinic theory and practice; women in mysticism, Chasidism, and Yiddish literature; and women in contemporary culture and politics. …”

“…Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. …”

“…Stavans's explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of figures</i><br><i>List of contributors<br>Foreword<br>Acknowledgements</i></p><p>Introduction<br><i>Maurice Biriotti</i></p><p><b>Part I: Politics</b>1 'Give me liberty or death'<br><i>Lee Grieveson</i>2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community<br><i>Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya</i>3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity<br><i>Harvey Wiltshire</i>4 The decolonial option and the end of the world<br><i>Izabella Wodzka</i>5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19<br><i>Kirsty Fife</i>6 Now are we cyborgs? …”

“…The texts analyzed are drawn from a wide range of genres: talmudic legal texts, hasidic tales, folklore, as well as modern poems, essays, and works of fiction in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Central Europe in 1910 as Seen Through the Lens of Ottoman Turkish -- 16. tsentral-eyrope in 1910: Yiddish Geography -- 17. Centra Eŭropo en 1910: Geographic and Place Names in Esperanto -- 18. …”

“…Carefully selected and painstakingly translated, these survivor accounts were first published between 1946 and 1948 in the Yiddish journal Fun Letzten Khurben (†̃From the Last Destruction') in postwar Germany, by refugees waiting in †̃Displaced Person' camps, in the American zone of occupation, for the arrival of travel documents and visas. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La neutralidad y los escritores -- Dice el pueblo -- Martín Luis Guzmán, a propósito de El hombre y sus armas -- Los clásicos de nuestra historia -- Substancia del teatro y teatro indoamericano -- Norteamérica desconocida -- Literatura yiddish contemporánea. Apuntes -- Presagio a la muerte", de Maria Luisa Hidalgo -- Atardecer sin lirios, de Vicente Magdaleno -- Presencia, de Otto D'Sola -- Historia de la literatura española, de Angel Valbuena Prats -- Jorge Icaza y los cholos -- Contrabando, de Enrique Serpa -- Asteriscos -- Índice General…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vertigo (1994) / Paul Auster -- A disturbance in one place (1994) / Binnie Kirshenbaum -- The romance reader (1995) / Pearl Abraham -- While the Messiah tarries (1995) / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- Tales out of school (1995) / Benjamin Taylor -- Mona in the promised land (1996) / Gish Jen -- The complete stories (1997) / Bernard Malamud -- The Puttermesser papers (1997) / Cynthia Ozick -- American pastoral (1997) / Philip Roth -- Like never before (1998) / Ehud Havazelet -- Paradise, New York (1998) / Eileen Pollack -- The Jew of New York (1998) / Ben Katchor -- For the relief of unbearable urges (1999) / Nathan Englander -- The ladies auxiliary (1999) / Tova Mirvis -- Moonlight on the avenue of faith (1999) / Gina Nahai -- The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) / Michael Chabon -- Bee season (2000) / Myla Goldberg -- Days of awe (2001) / Achy Obejas -- Paradise Park (2001) / Allegra Goodman -- Everything is illuminated (2002) / Jonathan Safran Foer -- The Russian debutante's handbook (2002) / Gary Shteyngart -- Old school (2003) / Tobias Wolff -- San Remo Drive (2003) / Leslie Epstein -- The first desire (2004) / Nancy Reisman -- Joy comes in the morning (2004) / Jonathan Rosen -- Collected stories (2004) / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The world to come (2006) / Dara Horn -- The Yiddish Policeman's Union (2007) / Michael Chabon -- The collected stories (2007) / Leonard Michaels -- Petropolis (2007) / Anya Ulinich…”
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“…Case studies are drawn from Italo-Romance varieties in the Americas, Spanish-Nahuatl contact, Castellano Andino, Greko/Griko in Southern Italy, Yiddish in Anglophone communities, Frisian in the Netherlands, Wymysiöryś in Poland, Sorbian in Germany, and Pomeranian and Zeelandic Flemish in Brazil…”

“…The research spectrum encompasses such diverse topics as Yiddish and Cymric translations of the Bible, Tamil and Zapotec mission texts, and French and Arabic cartographic material…”

“…The 184 sources in German, English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish and Chinese of this volume document these efforts, as well as the support work by local relief committees and other, mostly Jewish, international aid organizations. …”

“…Kafka intitulé Discours sur ta langue yiddish…”