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First Published in 1990. This series aims to inspire and publish scholarly work on Yiddish language, literature, folklore and cultural history, a yearbook of Yiddish Studies, volume 1
Yiddish in Yiddish, David Katz; Blitz and Witzenhausen - new aspects of an old conflict, Marion Aptroot; Yiddish culture in prewar Piotrkow (Pyeterkov), Majer Bogdanski; Jews in Polish folklore, Wladyslaw T.Bartoszewski; Halachic sources of old Yiddish words, Joseph Bar-El; on Mendele's syntax in "Fishke der drumer", Lewis Glinert; why do literary historians ignore A.N.Stencl?, Jeffrey Grossman; on the origins of Ashkenaz and Yiddish, Shmuel Hiley; Abraham Sutzkerver's "Ode tsu der toyb", Heather Valencia; the politics of researching spoken Yiddish in the USA and the USSR, Rakhmiel Peltz; in honour of Professor Chone Shmeruk, S.S.Prawer; older Yiddish lexicography - sources and methods, David Katz; watchmaking in Mikhalishek, Menke Katz; a conspiracy and a question mark, Robert D.King; irony in Arthur Schnitzler and Lamed Shapiro, Dafna Clifford; beginnings of modern literary Yiddish (1771-1798), Dov-Ber Kerler; my teacher Elye Falkovitsh, Joseph Kerler; remnants of Yiddish in the German of Schopfloch, Hadassah Shy; Yiddish literature and collective memory - the Khmelnitski pograms, Chone Shmeruk; in memoriam - Hartog Beem; in memoriam - Florence Guggenheim-Grunberg; seven letter from Sholem Ash to Moyshe Sanders.
Biography
Dr Dovid Katz, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, and St Antony's College, Oxford.
