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Yiddish newspaper Forverts.
Owing in a
large part to the
efforts of the
Yiddishist movement, Yiddish,
before World War II, was
becoming a
major language...
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Yiddish in Israel.
According to the
Yiddish linguist Nochum Shtif, the
Yiddishist movement came into
being as a
backlash to anti-Yiddish sentiment. Shtif...
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number of
Yiddish symbols have
emerged to
represent the
language and the
Yiddishist movement over history.
Lacking a
central authority, however, they have...
- with
Yiddish becoming the
cohesive force in a
secular culture (see the
Yiddishist movement).
Notable Yiddish writers of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries...
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Jewish society through intermarriage,
without conversion. Not a few
Yiddishists, like
Bundist ideologue A.
Litvak (Khayim
Yankl Helfand, 1874–1932))...
- (Chaim)
Yankl Helfand (1874–1932), social-democratic
Bundist ideologue and
Yiddishist Anatole Litvak (1902–1974), Lithuanian-American
filmmaker Jesse Litvak...
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Shlomo Kleit (1891–1962) was a
leader of the
Yiddishist /
Socialist movement in Lithuania. Kleit, who was a
tailor by profession,
became active in the...
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professor at
Barnard in New York City.
Today Klepfisz is
known as a
Yiddishist, but her מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn,
literally "mother tongue") was Polish;...
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regarded Yiddish-speakers as a
national group Bundism,
which combined Yiddishist Autonomism with
socialism Soviet Yiddishism,
promoting Yiddish-speakers...
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behalf of
Yiddish as a language,
coining the
words "Yiddishism" and "
Yiddishist." He
organized Yiddish events in Vienna,
translate Yiddish authors into...
