Word: yiddish
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...guide will highlight IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger G. Porter, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth Wisse, and Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said Hussein’s past actions justified an immediate attack despite the political scientists’ predictions...
...Chabon has other ideas. For one thing, he wants literary fiction to enjoy the liberties of fantasy genres like science fiction or horror. His next novel will be about a detective in an alternative present day in which the Jewish state is not the Israel we know but a Yiddish-speaking homeland carved out of Alaska...
...intellectual, Imre refused to allow even popguns in his home, opposed the circumcision of his son and delighted in making whole villages out of folded paper for his children. "He was such a gentle, modest man," says Judit. "It was impossible not to love my father." The sound of Yiddish and the aromas of the seder suffuse other stories told to Centropa researchers. The craggy face of an old rabbi named Abraham Rezmovitz glares out from under a wide-brimmed hat in an account of the family Rezmovitz, who lived in a part of what was then Hungary...
...great turning point, even a kind of epiphany, took place between the ages of 8 and 10. I was able to go every day to the very well stocked Melrose branch of the New York Public Library, not far from where we lived in the Bronx. We spoke Yiddish at home. I had taught myself to read English when I was very small. To this day, my pronunciation is as odd as it is because I learned it through the eye rather than through...