Yiddishist

Dawidowicz wrote later in life that she was profoundly influenced both by the rigorous curriculum offered at the Hunter College High School and the fine teachers she studied with at the Sholem Aleichem Mitlshul, a secular, Yiddishist supplementary school.

Lucy S. Dawidowicz. 2009

This departure from Yiddishist activism not only dovetailed with the Workers Party policy but also reflected a growing trend in Jewish communities.

Communism in the United States. 2009

A participant in the Czernowitz Yiddish Conference in 1908, Esther was firmly in the extreme Yiddishist camp.

Esther Frumkin. 2009

In the summer of 1918, in the framework of the Yiddishist organization Kultur-Lige, these artists founded “Art Section,” which was also joined by Khentova, Shor and Genke.

Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union. Grigorij 2009

Khatskels threw herself at the task at hand and became a leading figure in the Yiddishist school movement and in the Lithuanian Kultur-Lige (League for Culture), which was founded in 1919 to promote Yiddish culture and to serve as an umbrella organization for the emerging Yiddish schools.

Helene Khatskels. 2009

But Kessner did not get excited about her intellectual venture until she met the Yiddishist Joseph Landis, who encouraged her to drop the high art of Milton for the analysis of the down-to-earth Jewish immigrant novel before 1917.

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

The first generation of Jewish women professors, especially those in the field of literature, consisted of militantly secular women from a variety of Jewish social backgrounds (labor, socialist, Yiddishist, Zionist, immigrant, and mercantile).

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

In New York, she joined the circle of immigrant Jewish intellectuals who gathered around the Yiddishist Chaim Zhitlovsky.

Anna Margolin. 2009

Waddington is credited with being a powerful voice challenging the patriarchal assumptions which persisted among her fellow modernist poets, and it would not be amiss to speculate that the forceful and articulate women of her Yiddishist milieu steeled her for this challenge.

Miriam Dworkin Waddington. 2009

Her daughter Taube (b. 1950), her late son Hyam (1953 – 1997) and her son Itzik (b. 1957), co-editor of the newspaper Der Forverts, folklorist and passionate Yiddishist, are urged not to squander their linguistic legacy.

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Leye 2009