Germans or Jews? German-speaking Jews in post-war Europe: an introduction by Čapková, K, Rechter, D

“…For the most part these studies deal with Yiddish-speaking eastern European (primarily Polish) Jews who saw no future in a Europe awash with antisemitism; the overwhelming majority dreamt of joining the ranks of theJewish state-in-the-making in Palestine. …”

Languages in contact and conflict on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) by Leszek Bednarczuk

“… Languages in Contact and Conflict on the Territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) Professor Uriel Weinreich, born and raised in Wilno / Vilnius, in his famous work Languages in contact (1953/1970), apart from some remarks concerning Slavic influences on the North-East variety of Yiddish, in fact does not mention the linguistic contacts on the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. …”
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Obszar językowy litewski w państwie polskim 1927–1933 by Olgierd Chomiński

“…Full list of localities and the number of persons speaking Lithuanian (as well as Polish, Belorussian, Russian Old Believers and Yiddish in mutual relations) were arranged and discussed successively: uniform areas (Święciany 50 000, Orany 24 000, Puńsk–Sejny 8 200) mixed areas (Ejszyszki, Soleczniki, Werenów, Raduń 9 500), and linguistic islands (Opsa 2 200, Gierwiaty 4 000, Dziewieniszki 4 200, Łazduny 2 500, Wilno–Troki 900 and several dozen people in Zdzięcioł), altogether about 106 000 persons, who could speak or understand Lithuanian language. …”
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ובד Il ritorno della sapienza antica nell’esperienza della psicanalisi by Giovanni Sias

“…This contribution will primarily refer to the heritage of Jewish culture and, in particular, to the notion of ‘wisdom’, following a pattern that stems from the antique prophets and touches upon Kabbalists and not-orthodox and not-religious cultures, such as the Yiddish and the Chassidic ones. The result will be a an extremely complex theory of language in comparison with the Western tradition of linguistics stemming from De Saussure’s contribution.  …”
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Motivi biblici nell’opera teatrale di Stanisław Wyspiański e Jerzy Grotowski by Luca Bernardini

“…The play was therefore edited by Austrian censorship and was staged for the first time only in 1927, once Poland had regained her independence: not on a Polish scene, though, but by the Krokewer Yidish Teater in Dawid Liebl’s yiddish translation.   The second play partly centered on a biblical theme is Akropolis (1904), a monumental drama set in Cracow’s Pantheon, the Wawel cathedral. …”
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Leksyka pochodzenia bałtyckiego w mieszanych białorusko-rosyjskich gwarach południowej Pskowszczyzny (rejon Siebieża i Newla) by Mirosław Jankowiak

“…The southern part of Pskov region has been the place of contact of various languages and dialects (Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Yiddish). The Baltic vocabulary is connected mainly with the oldest layer of the lexis and concerns the traditional agriculture, farming, nature or features of people’s character and appearance. …”
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„To nie była Ameryka”. Z Michaelem Charlesem Steinlaufem rozmawia Elżbieta Janicka (Warszawa – Nowy Jork – Warszawa, 2014–2015) by Elżbieta Janicka

“…Steinlauf’s research interests focus on the work of Mark Arnshteyn (Andrzej Marek) and of Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, Yiddish theatre as well as Polish narratives of the Holocaust. …”
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Keeleliste elulugude uurimisvõimalusi: Dagmar Normeti mitmekeelne lapsepõlv Eestis. Possibilities of Research on Linguistic Biographies: Dagmar Normet, a Multilingual Childhood in... by Anna Verschik

“…Jewish topics, although present in the narrative, are by no means dominant (i.e., the struggle between Yiddish and Hebrew, Jewish secularism and tradition, Jewish and non-Jewish world). …”
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse by Cyril Aslanov, Sibylle Kriegel, Georges Daniel Véronique

“…Relexification by borrowing of the lexicon of one of the languages in contact and nativization of the new vehicular language are processes of creolization which seem to have also presided over the emergence of Eastern Yiddish. In this contribution, we would like to reconstruct the glottogenesis of historically attested Indo-European languages by using the model of creolization that may be observed in the genesis of Creoles in the colonies of the Caribean Islands and the Indian Ocean. …”
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David Brackett. 2016. Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press by Thomas Johnson

“…Brackett shows how subcategories of foreign music expressed both homologous and exoticist/imaginary relationships with musical communities and thus exemplifies a common theme of his book: When industry and public discourses link categories of music with categories of people, they tend to conflate stereotypes with actual listening communities. The Hebrew-Yiddish musical category, for instance, was homologous “in that it referred to a preexisting demographic group, which the music industry assumed was its main audience” (57). …”
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