We know many names of scholars -ethnic Russians, Jews, etc. - who devoted their life to this field. Yiddish linguistics, on the contrary, attracted almost exclusively students of Jewish origin; it was a clear-cut national field of studies with own Yiddish-language publications. The Yiddish lin...
when reforms were prepared to improve the status of Jews. The exhibition in the Spanish Synagogue continues the history through to the present day. ThePinkas Synagogueis dedicated to the Bohemian and Moravian victims of the Holocaust, whose ...
Speaking of the Hungarian focus, an intriguing aspect of the Kolozsvar entry are the street names. These are obviously different from the current Romanian versions. The first one given is Ferencz- Jozsef utca (Franz Joseph Street). This street is now Strada Horea, which leads from the railway...
According to McMurtry, “Every region of the United States seems to have its own way of Anglicizing, or rather, Americanizing Spanish names. There’s a town called Palacios on the Texas coast. Texans pronounce it ‘Palashuss,’ which just happens to kinda rhyme with ‘fascist.’ “While t...
The 124-meter-long Abraham Co Building on Beijing Road is one of the city’s longest red-brick historical buildings. It provides insight into the long and eventful history of Jews in China. On an 1850 registration list of local expatriates, Shanghai historian Wang Jian discovere...
or changed their names onlyreluctantly — the latternot to "blend in with their new home," but to try to escape the prejudices, persecution, and violence typically visited upon members of various national, ethnic, and religious groups in the U.S. (e.g., Catholics, Jews, Irish, Italians)...
as 12% rather than “over 12%”) but he seems to be standing fast on his claim of 44% for the 1970s, which seems odd to me given that it is based on his subjective ability to recognize Jewish names, an ability which he clearly doesn’t seem to have, at least not for these ...
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but it’s incredibly atmospheric so that’s a strong draw. The town was founded in 1471 as a small Moorish fortress to protect Muslims and Jews fleeing the turmoil in Spain. The architecture in the town’s central Kasbah reflects this Andalusian providence and really gives you a sense that ...
naming names and spitting accusations, while my tight-lipped parents murmur “‘God, say it can’t happen here, too.” And I realize that maybe my father’s truth was that he just never forgot how flimsy the dream really is, after losing nearly everything one unholy night in Mala Viska...