You don't have to be Jewish to get back at the shmendriks of the world! Yiddish - the most colourful language in the history of mankind. What other language gives you a whole dictionary of ways to tell someone to drop dead? That schmuck, for instance, who got promoted over you? He should be transformed into a chandelier, to hang by day and to burn by night. In these endlessly entertaining pages, you will find the perfect insult for every occasion, from the short and sweet (A plague on you - a fi...
New Readings of Yiddish Montreal - Traduire le Montréal yiddish (International Canadian Studies)
The texts collected in this volume unveil the practice and the methods of the translators and scholars who contributed to the reemergence of Yiddish in contemporary Canada. Each of the personalities discussed enlarged the historical position and interpreted various aspects of the Yiddish language in Montreal that until recently remained obscure or inaccessible. Les textes rassembles dans ce volume tentent de lever le voile sur la demarche et les methodes des traducteurs et chercheurs qui ont con...
Rucklaufiges Morphologisches Woerterbuch Des Althochdeutschen
by Rolf Bergmann
Gesprochenes Jiddisch (Beihefte Zum Language And Culture Atlas Of Ashkenazic Jewry, #1)
by Ulrike Kiefer
Jurgen Eichhoff: Wortatlas Der Deutschen Umgangssprachen. Band 3
by Jurgen Eichhoff
New York’s Yiddish Theater
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, e...
By a prolific Yiddish playwright and professor of Yiddish language and literature at Columbia University, it's a celebration of all things Yiddish -- the funny, soulful language that's enjoying a major resurgence among Jews and non-Jews alike. What's not to like? It's a nice calendar.
Yiddish - the most colourful language in the history of mankind. What other language gives you a whole dictionary of ways to tell people to drop dead? That "shmuck" for instance, who got promoted over you? He should be transformed into a chandelier, to hang by day and burn by night! In these endlessly entertaining pages, you will find the perfect insult for every occasion, from the short and sweet - 'A plague on you!' ('A finsteren yor!') - to the whole 'megillah' - 'He should marry the...
Woerterbuch Der Obersaechsischen Mundarten Begruendet Von Theodor Frings / Rudolf Grobe
Das Obersachsische, gegenuber dem Niedersachsischen so bezeichnet, umfasst die Mundarten des einstigen Konigreiches, spateren und nunmehr wiedergebildeten Freistaates Sachsen, dazu die des Raumes zwischen Halle, Wittenberg und Bad Liebenwerda (der zur ehemaligen preussischen Provinz Sachsen gehorte) und von Teilen der schlesischen Lausitz. Materialgrundlage ist mit gelegentlichen Ruckgriffen die seit 1850 bis zur Gegenwart in Sachsen gesprochene Sprache. Die alphabetisch geordneten Stichworter s...
Oy vey, bubelleh, The kinder are going to kvell over this book! Whether your baby is a Shayna Maidel, a Shmendrick, or just plain Meshugga, it's no bubbe meiseh...this book really is for everyone! The farbisseners, the alter kockers, the pishers, the nudnicks...even the goyim and the machatunim. YIDDISH FOR BABIES is fun for the whole mishpocheh!
Archaismen - Archaisierungsprozesse - Sprachdynamik (Leipziger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kommunikationsgeschichte, #9)
Sprachdynamische Prozesse und insbesondere ihr "Produkt" Archaismen sind ein faszinierendes Phanomen mit vielen Facetten. Einige davon werden anhand der Analyse umfangreichen sprachlichen Materials in diesem Band exemplifiziert, z.B. Kurzzeitwoerter, Wortschatzveranderungen in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Umbruche, die Genese von Wortgebrauchstraditionen, die Hochton-Archaisierung, die Spezifika der lexikografischen Kodifizierung von Archaismen, Archaisierungen in nicht-sprachlichen Zeichensystemen...
This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. It includes the broad range of genres that define the corpus: Arthurian romance, heroic epic, satire, lyric, drama, biblical/midrashic epic, devotional literature, biblical translations, glosses, medicine, magic, legal texts, oaths, letters, legends, autobiography, travelogue, fables,...
Dutch for Reading Knowledge.
by Christine Van Baalen, Frans R E Blom, and Inez Hollander
Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature
This volume opens the world of Old Yiddish to scholars and students of Yiddish and Jewish Studies alike. It is a further step to broaden awareness that Yiddish, far from starting with the nineteenth century, can claim a history of over a thousand years. Presenting topics such as the oldest traces of Yiddish, bibliographical issues, language interaction, interpretation, contextualization and research history, this volume will contribute greatly to understanding of Western Yiddish literature. Unit...
Under the Red Banner (Judische Kultur. Studien Zur Geistesgeschichte, Religion Und, #20)
Nicht selten verwenden wir im Alltag Woerter wie pennen (schlafen) oder Kohldampf (Hunger), ohne zu wissen, dass sie ursprunglich aus sogenannten Geheim- und Sondersprachen stammen. Dabei werden bzw. wurden solche Geheimsprachen fast uberall in Europa gesprochen. Dieser Band versammelt Aufsatze vor allem zu Geheimsprachen in Mittel-, Ostmittel- und Sudosteuropa und deckt thematisch die ganze Bandbreite der Sondersprachenforschung ab - von theoretischen Fragen wie der Einordnung der Sondersprache...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
You're not idiot, of course. You can serve up a mean s'il vous plait in a French bistro, live la vida loca for a night of margaritas, and manage a sayonara! after sushi, sake, and karaoke. But when it comes to throwing around a little Yiddish, you feel like a total nebbish! Don't throw your hands in a helpless "Oy, vey" just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish is your guide to this unique tongue, whether you're tackling rules of grammar or just throwing around some key phrases so...