Tag: Yiddish

Free Download Beatrice Weinreich, "Yiddish Folktales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)"
English | 1997 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0805210903 | EPUB | 8,0 mb
Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life,luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; poignant encounters between rabbis and their disciples; and stories whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them tragically disappeared, these enchanting Yiddishfolktales continue to work their magic today.

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.