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Free Download Barbara Davilman, "Yiddish with George and Laura"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 031601446X | EPUB | pages: 112 | 3.7 mb
What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality).

Free Download Michael Wex, "Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It"
English | 2016 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1250071518 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. Rhapsody in Schmaltz traces the history and social impact of the cuisine that Yiddish-speaking Jews from Central and Eastern Europe brought to the U.S. and that their American descendants developed and refined. The book looks at how and where these dishes came to be, how they varied from region to region, the role they played in Jewish culture in Europe, and the role that they play in Jewish and more general American culture and foodways today.

Free Download Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America By Kenyon Zimmer
2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0252039386 | EPUB | 3 MB
From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement’s changing fortunes from the pre-World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies.

Free Download In the Demon’s Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern by Jeremy Dauber
English | December 14, 2010 | ISBN: 0300141750 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.4 MB
This important study is the first to offer a sustained look at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks-and their writers and readers-paying particular attention to their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.

Free Download Dirty Yiddish: Everyday Slang from "What’s Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang) by Adrienne Gusoff
English | September 4, 2012 | ISBN: 1612430562 | True EPUB | 184 pages | 0.9 MB
Next time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation.

Free Download Jonah Corne, "Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication "
English | ISBN: 1438494211 | 2023 | 362 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 5 MB
Jonah Corne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba. Monika Vrečar is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

Free Download Barbara Davilman, "Yiddish with Dick and Jane"
English | 2004 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0316159727 | EPUB | 2,8 mb
Jane is in real estate.

Free Download Diego Rotman, "The Yiddish Stage As a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Satirical Theater 1927-1980"
English | ISBN: 3110717425 | 2021 | 380 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 3 MB
The Yiddish Theater Stage as a Temporary Home takes us through the fascinating life and career of the most important comic duo in Yiddish Theater, Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Shumacher. Spanning over the course of half a century – from the beginning of their work at the Ararat avant-garde Yiddish theater in Lodz, Poland to their Warsaw theatre – they produced bold, groundbreaking political satire. The book further discusses their wanderings through the Soviet Union during the Second World War and their attempt to revive Jewish culture in Poland after the Holocaust. It finally describes their time in Israel, first as guest performers and later as permanent residents. Despite the restrictions on Yiddish actors in Israel, the duo insisted on performing in their language and succeeded in translating the new Israeli reality into unique and timely satire. In the 1950s, they voiced a unique – among the Hebrew stages – political and cultural critique. Dzigan continued to perform on his own and with other Israeli artists until his death in 1980.

Free Download Rebekka Voß, "Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture "
English | ISBN: 1512824321 | 2023 | 326 pages | PDF | 58 MB
Envisioned as a tribe of ruddy-faced, redheaded, red-bearded Jewish warriors, bedecked in red attire who purportedly resided in isolation at the fringes of the known world, the Red Jews are a legendary people who populated a shared Jewish-Christian imagination. But in fact the red variant of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel is a singular invention of late medieval vernacular culture in Germany. This idiosyncratic figure, together with the peculiar term "Red Jews," existed solely in German and Yiddish, the German-Jewish vernacular. These two language communities assessed the Red Jews differently and contested their significance, which is to say, they viewed them in different shades of red. The voyage of the Red Jews through the Jewish and Christian imagination, from their medieval Christian nascence, through early modern Old Yiddish literature, to modern Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe, Palestine, and America, is the story of this book.

Free Download Amy Simon, "Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries "
English | ISBN: 103244018X | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.