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Exploring the languages spoken and written by Jews throughout history and around the world. We've stepped away from this platform, find us in other spaces.

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Your #GivingTuesday gift will further our mission to document and celebrate Jewish linguistic diversity. Help us meet our goal of $20,000 to sustain current programming and help more people access the 🌏 of Jewish languages for years to come. youtu.be/_ddXbwKn4hE
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@JewishLanguages @yugntruf Just FYI — I worked from Jordan Kutzik's English translation and not from the original Faroese (to my great shame). Completely separately I am working on a translation from Swedish to Yiddish, but I suspect that's been done. I'll have to check...
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Shkoyekh @a_a_viswanath & @yugntruf! We're pretty sure this is the first time we've seen a #Yiddish #kidlit story translated from Faroese (an Old-Norse-based language similar to #Icelandic). The original puffin tale was written & illustrated by Jenny Kjærbo.🐧🥚
Arun Schaechter Viswanath@a_a_viswanath

Now out, a burst of cute in these dark times: my Yiddish translation of an adorable little book of a little puffin coming to terms with a new sibling's arrival, published by @yugntruf! Or get the English translation by @Thrownpeas. You can preorder here: kinderloshn.org/books/uh-oh/

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Hey, the beseders are back! Continuing this week's focus on Sigd and the Ethiopian Jewish community, we learned this interesting fact from A. Teferra's article in the "Handbook of Jewish Languages" (Leiden: Brill), ed. Kahn and Rubin, pp.8-21. @HUCJIR
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Yiddish Book Center@YiddishBookCtr·
Thank you @Forverts for this great review of Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945," translated and edited by @davidscribbler and available today from the Center's imprint, White Goat Press. Read the review: forward.com/forverts-in-en…
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Writer David Stromberg @davidscribbler began translating I.B. Singer's essays that he wrote using the pen name, Yitskhok Varshavski. Singer often portrayed himself as the sole guardian of the annihilated world of Polish Jewry. forward.com/forverts-in-en…

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Jewish Language Project@JewishLanguages·
Apps due Dec. 4 to study #endangeredlanguages with our colleagues at Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! Next term will include Judeo-Greek, Advanced Judeo-Turkish, Advanced Beginners Judeo-French, and Judeo-Tat. The OSRJL is part of our Consortium.🤝
Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies@OCHJSnews

We are pleased to announce that applications for classes beginning in Hilary Term 2024 through our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages are now open! For more information and to apply, please consult ochjs.ac.uk/language-class…. Deadline to apply is 4 Dec. 2023 at 12 noon UK time.

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Baking and sharing food can be a source of comfort during challenging times. We cooked up today's Fun Fact by kneading together information from ANU - Museum of the Jewish People's database of Jewish family names and Alexander Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names.
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