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Women’s Headgear
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World War I
Name generally given to the set of military conflicts during the years 1914–1918 that set the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria (the Central Powers) against those of Great Britain, France, Russia, …
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World War I
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World War I
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World War I and After
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World War I and After
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World War I and Its Aftermath
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World War II
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World War II
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World War II
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World War II
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World War II
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World War II, the Holocaust, and Displaced Persons
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Writers with Roots in the Early Twentieth Century
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Yiddish (Language)
Yiddish is the historic language of Ashkenazic (Central and East European) Jewry, and is the third principal literary language in Jewish history, after classical Hebrew and (Jewish) Aramaic. The language is characterized…
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Yiddish Actors Union
Professional association of Jewish actors in Poland in the interwar period (1919–1939). Known by its Yiddish name Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (YAF) or by the official Polish name Związek Artystów Scen Żydowskich (ZASŻ), the …
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Yiddish Criticism and Scholarship (Literary Criticism and Scholarship)
The slow development of Yiddish literary criticism in Eastern Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century mirrored the limited role that modern Yiddish literature played in Jewish cultural life at that time. A te…
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Yiddish Literary Journals (Literary Journals)
Most Russian maskilim of the 1860s were no less contemptuous of Yiddish, the noxious zhargon (jargon), than were their Berlin colleagues, yet—against the grain—the maskil Aleksander Zederbaum (1816–1893) in 1862 issued …
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Yiddish Literature (Children’s Literature)
The period in which modern children’s literature in Yiddish flourished began in the early twentieth century. This era also saw the growth of educational institutions in which Yiddish was the language of instruction. In t…
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Yiddish Poetry (Poetry)
The dynamic development of Yiddish poetry in Eastern Europe charts a complex interplay between ideological approaches, cultural factors, and literary models profoundly influenced by historic events. For instance, each ge…
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