All Alone, Without Money, No Language--Just Yiddish": An Immigrant's Letters from Missouri to Galicia

In June 1891, Shimshon Gerye, a Jewish immigrant from Galicia (a region that now falls across the border of Ukraine and Poland) living in Sedalia, Missouri, received a letter from a cousin back home. The content of the letter was probably rather mundane (a request to send money, inquiries about health), but its timing was somewhat unusual: in the thirty-five years that Shimshon had been living in America, this was apparently the first he had heard from his family in Europe. What survives of the ensuing correspondence, written in Yiddish and spanning a one-year period, provides an interesting view of the situation of the immigrant and the pressures of assimilation, as well as the Yiddish language in America at the end of the nineteenth century.

Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century, pt. 3

Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.

Ḳrizanders Yidishe gramaṭiḳ fun yor 1750 /

Yiddish, English and German.

Otsar ha-shorashim : kolel shorshe ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit ... ṿe-haʻataḳatam...me-ʻIvrit le-ʼAshkenazit ume-ʼAshkenazit le-ʻIvrit.

Mode of access: Internet.

Otsar ha-shorashim; kolel shorshe ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit, ʻim pitron horaʼotehem ṿe-haʻataḳatam me-ʻIvrit le-Ashkenazit ume-Ashkenazit le-ʻIvrit.

Mode of access: Internet.

Otsar ha-shorashim : kolel shorshe ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit ṿe-haʻataḳatam...me-ʻIvrit le-Ashkenazit ume-Ashkenazit le-ʻIvrit...gam ha-shorashim bi-leshon Aramit u-shemot ha-anashim ṿeha-meḳomot ha-nimtsaʼim be-khitve ḳodesh /

Added t.p.: Hebräisch-deutsches and deutsch-hebräisches Wörterbuch über das alte Testament.

Das hebräische und aramäische element in der jiddischen sprache,

Issued also as dissertation, Würzburg.

[Te.hilim...nevi'im 'a.haronim].

British and Foreign Bible Society, no. 8491.

Nay'e Ṭeʻsṭa'meʻnṭ...mashiaḥ.

Darlow & Moule: 4491.

Thesaurus grammaticus linguae sanctae Hebraeae : duobus libris methodicè propositus ... : adjecta, prosodia metrica, sive poeseos Hebraeorum dilucida tractatio ... : lectionis Hebraeo-Germanicae usus, & exercitatio ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Otsar ha-shorashim : ... shorshe ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit ṿe-haʻataḳatam ... me-ʻIvrit le-ʾAshkenazit ume-ʾAshkenazit le-ʻIvrit ... gam ha-shorashim bi-leshon Aramit ... /

Added t.p.: Hebräisch-deutsches and deutsch-hebräisches Wörterbuch über das alte Testament.

Otsar ha-shorashim : ...shorshe ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit ṿe-haʻataḳatam...me-ʻIvrit le-ʼAshkenazit ume-ʼAshkenazit le-ʻIvrit.

Mode of access: Internet.

Jüdisches wörterbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der gegenwärtig in Polen üblichen ausdrücke /

"Literatur": p. xiv-xv.

Jüdischdeutsche texte; Lesebuch zur Einführung in Denken, Leben und Sprache der osteuropäischen Juden,

"Einleitung" in German; Yiddish texts in roman type.