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	Yiddish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yiddish, when used as an adjective, refers to the Ashkenazi culture that developed in central and eastern Europe during the second millennium CE, and spread via emmigration to other continents.
		Yiddish orthography, the use of the Hebrew script for the written representation of the language
		Yiddish phonology, the elements of the spoken language
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yiddish (284 words)

	World--Lawyer Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alsatian lawyer, poet and theologian who was born in Strasbourg in 1458; spent much of his life lecturing and writing in Basel; returned to Strasbourg in 1499; died in Strasbourg in 1521.
		Poet, novelist, historian and lawyer; early writer about jazz (his collection of poems, "Jazz Band," was published in 1922 with a preface by Jules Romains; also published, in 1932, a study about jazz, Aux Frontieres du Jazz); lived in the United States during WW II (1941-1945).
		poet, jurist, researcher, Nassef was one of the leaders of Egypt's literary revival in the late 19th and early 20th century.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/intro/world.html (9305 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in a wide area stretching from portions of eastern Turkey and eastern Iraq to western India (see maps in Crystal 1987:299, and in Payne 1987:516).
		For example, it was an important language during the reign of the Moguls in Indian where knowledge of Persian was cultivated and encouraged; its use in the courts of Mogul India ended in 1837, banned by officials of the East Indian Company.
		The Early Modern period of the language (ninth to thirteenth centuries), preserved in the literature of the Empire, is known as Classical Persian, due to the eminence and distinction of poets such as Rudaki, Firdowsi, and Khayyam.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=63 (1526 words)

	Holocaust Literature -- A-Z Entries List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He is the author of Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement, the editor of the two-volume anthology, Yiddish Literature in America: 1870-2000 (in Yiddish), and the co-editor of The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Teachers and Thinkers of Modern Judaism and Events and Movements of Modern Judaism.
		Educated at Wellesley, Brandeis, and Stanford, she is known as a poet and a translator, as well as a scholar of Yiddish poetry.
		She is the editor of several volumes of translated Yiddish literature and a frequent writer on cultural and political affairs.
	www.routledge-ny.com /holocaustlit/contributors.html (8886 words)

	Yiddish - Messengers Messianic Fellowship
		Yiddish is a highly plastic and assimilative language, rich in idioms, and possessing remarkable freshness, pithiness, and pungency.
		In the early years of the 20th century Yiddish was spoken by an estimated 11 million people living mainly in eastern Europe and the U.S. The use of the language has been declining since then.
		In Israel the Hebrew language is predominant, and Yiddish is a second language, cultivated largely by members of the older generation who have an eastern European background; only a few modern Israeli poets write in Yiddish.
	www.messiahnj.org /yiddish.htm (886 words)

	Yiddish in the U.S.S.R.
		Yet the language in which Sholem Aleichem wrote, Yiddish, has been subjected to harsh discrimination and suppression, while other Soviet minorities are encouraged to preserve and develop their languages and cultures.
		By the 1930's there were more than 1,200 Yiddish schools and several teacher-training institutions, as well as departments of Jewish studies and chairs of Yiddish language and literature at the Universities of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk.
		He is one of a sizable group of Yiddish writers who have cut off relations with Sovietish Haimland, and are now doing their writing for the desk drawer, or for the occasional distribution in mimeographed form through underground channels.
	www.lib.umd.edu /SLSES/donors/eng_articles/ussr.html (2573 words)

	The Language Construction Kit
		If a language doesn't have case it may rely on word order to indicate the relationship between a verb's arguments; but there is another alternative: head-marking on the verb.
		In Indo-European languages we are used to unanalyzable roots for the numbers; but in other families number names are derivations, often related to the process of counting on fingers and toes-- e.g.
		If your language has cases, you must be careful to put the pronouns in the right case-- English doesn't give you the right instincts here, now that whom is used only by pedants like me. Generally the proper case to use is the one that would be appropriate in the subclause.
	www.zompist.com /kitgram.html (4675 words)

	www.voww.net - Language Tutor
		Foreign Languages for Travelers - Provides vocabulary words, sound files with pronunciation assistance, and a quiz to help you learn dozens of languages online.
		Provides support for families where one or both parents are speaking a foreign language (not their native language) to their children in an effort to raise them bilingually.
		Information about language schools, high schools, and universities for students who want to travel and study a language in the country where it is spoken.
	www.voww.net /languagetutor/languagetutor.htm (643 words)

	Yiddish A Z
		A renowned Yiddish theater and stage actor, Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem novel, centers on Tevye's daughter Khave who falls in love with and marries a Ukrainian intellectual, testing Tevye's deep-seated faith, loyalty to tradition, and his love for his daughter.
		The present (1989) state of Yiddish culture in Israel is examined, from socialist Bundists in Tel Aviv to the Orthodox in Jerusalem, and all the people, poets, singers, revolutionaries, journalists, and actors in between for whom Yiddish is a living language in the midst of Hebrew.
		The Yiddish speakers interviewed discuss their love of Yiddish language and literature and the attitude in Israel toward Yiddish.
	www.brandeis.edu /jewishfilm/Catalogue/yiddishaz.htm (4407 words)

	Yiddish Page
		Yiddish, An Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture.
		Also, the books are given transliterated Yiddish names for the website buttons, but when you download them they just have numbers, so I would suggest that as you save each file, you give it a name you can remember, being sure each name has the.pdf extension.
		While many immigrants, male and female, were similarly worn down by their harsh lives in America, Yiddish songs involving men or laborers in general are, for the most part, more martial, resolute or defiant in their tone, while Grine Kuzine, despite it’s sad theme, is framed in lively, up-tempo music.
	www.jdlevin.com /_wsn/page2.html (4837 words)

	languagehat
		We are losing the language, which is not surprising considering that there has not been even so much as a school here to preserve it (what is surprising is that it has lasted even this long).
		The new Christian language of poverty was the most widespread Mediterranean discourse of entitlement, affecting all persons down to the most indigent; and so it was the most suitable, the most powerful, and the most effective rhetoric in which the weak and the suppliant could converse with the more powerful.
		If such language is proving a headache for the diplomats, then spare a thought for the French translators, who have struggled for words to convey the full force of the venom.
	languagehat.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_languagehat_archive.html (6537 words)

	Helpful Links: Language Arts--Homeschool Christian.com
		ABCheckers An English language consultancy set up in 1995 by a group of New Zealand teachers who wanted to use the Internet to help people improve their English.
		An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-line from the Dept. of English, University of Toronto.
		Poet's Corner A large, diverse, and user-friendly public library of poetic works.
	www.homeschoolchristian.com /Links/LanguageArts (1248 words)

	S. L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books
		She would re-read sentences while suggesting improvements and he would revise repeatedly, searching for the appropriate phrasing and asking her for names, dates, etc. Then she would repeatedly re-type the text for several passes of cutting and pasting with strips of white and yellow paper covered with handwritten revisions.
		It was accepted that articles appeared with his byline, but my father did acknowledge the vital partnership with my mother, who, in turn, admired his ability to create a story and find a powerful way to tell it.
		Here at McKeldin Library, these Yiddish books proudly take their place alongside other Jewish literatures in Hebrew and all the major languages of western civilization.
	www.lib.umd.edu /UMCP/SLSES/index.html (413 words)

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		A comprehensive list of associations, schools and government bodies around the world, including a number that offer tested credentials in various language pairs can be found at http://www.proz.com/translator_associations.
		Dictionary of gestures, signs, and body language cues from the Centre for Nonverbal Studies, which aims to advance the study of human communication in all forms excepting oral means.
		List of real-estate terms to be found in Canadian law or legal history and extracted from the World Wide Legal Information Association's Legal Dictionary http://www.wwlia.org/ca-re6.htm
	www.tiservicesuk.com /Glossary/glossindex.html (5206 words)

	Dan Wyman Books Yiddish Periodicals
		We are pleased to make available to you this list of almost 50 different titles from the last 110 years of Yiddish Periodicals..
		OCLC lists 18 holdings, though many of these are incomplete and some appear to be Microfilm rather than hard copy.
		He demanded for Jews "national equal rights with all peoples" and asserted that only through the Yiddish language could the social and national revival of the Jewish people be effected.
	www.danwymanbooks.com /yidper/yidper.htm (11136 words)

	The Online Books Page: Archives and Indexes
		Below we list some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized.
		List of public domain titles (compiled by a third party; incomplete, but only includes fully accessible titles)
		The University of Virginia's Western European Literature listing also lists a number of major collections in languages other than English.
	onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /archives.html (2359 words)

	The non-bloggish blog: Yiddish insults II
		The non-bloggish blog: Yiddish insults II The non-bloggish blog
		Yiddish insults II This time we go deep rather than wide, focusing on a single curse: a viste pgire af dir, which translates as 'a dismal animal death to you'.
		Michael Wex, in his book Born to Kvetch – Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, explains:
	nonblog.typepad.com /the_nonbloggish_blog/2006/04/yiddish_insults.html (208 words)

	Language Resource Center: UM Languages
		Languages on the Web: Great place to find links for different cultures and languages.
		International Children's Digital Library: Children's books and reading tools in 20+ languages; the site itself can be searched in 9 different languages.
		Yiddish Language: List of Yiddish Words and Expressions
	www.umich.edu /~langres/langsite/engines/index.htm (918 words)

	Poets House - Programs : Cumulative Program List
		The People's Poetry Gathering, co-sponsored by Poets House and City Lore, is a collaboration between literature and folklore, disciplines which share roots in oral traditions.
		Poets and Bands: Talking Book Festival with Sherman Alexie with Jim Boyd and Rez Bound; Sekou Sundiata with his band; Jerome Rothenberg with the Klezmatics, and DJ Jeannie Hopper
		Poets of Alaska: A Reading and Discussion with Christianne Balk, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, John Haines, John Morgan and Tom Sexton.
	poetshouse.org /progcume.htm (12389 words)

	Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists
		If you missed out on the first two books, buy all four Baby Be of Use books in one bundle for just $24.
		This section will be updated as often as possible with several new lists at a time.
		Song Titles, Before Editing for Language Efficiency and Clarity
	www.mcsweeneys.net /links/lists (3446 words)

	EDU2 : Level 3
		Gwarnant: y Beirdd i'r Oesoedd Canol (The Medieval Welsh Poets)
		The language of South Wales as an art form.
		Ukraine and Ukrainian Arts and Culture at BRAMA - Language
	www.my-edu2.com /EDU/langua2.htm (189 words)

	ELA Acronym, Dictionary & Glossary Directory
		Bacteria Definitions and abbreviations: List of Bacterial Names Standing in Nomenclature J.P. Euzéby
		Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC Glossary, Guide to the Language of the Futures Industry
		Latin course for the Virtual School of Languages
	www.elapro.net /diction.htm (3737 words)

	netLibrary Public Library Consortium titles
		American Indian Languages : The Historical Linguistics of Native America {Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics ; 4}
		Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance {Writers of English}
		Including Introduction and Life of Rostand, List of Characters, Synopsis of the Play, Summaries and Commentaries
	www.wils.wisc.edu /coop/vendor/netlib3b.html (13275 words)

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