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Yiddish Wisdom: Humor and Heart from the Old Country
by Chronicle Books“The tongue is the pen of the heart/Di tsung iz der feder fun di hartz” and more sayings that sum up Jewish character and culture from generations past. Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With more than 150 folk sayings translated in Yiddish and English—from the whimsical and witty (Dress up a broom and it will also look nice/Az men batziert a bezem iz er oich shain) to the poignant (When one must, one can/Az me muz, ken men) and practical (When you look to the heights, hold on to your hat/Az du kukst oif hoicheh zachen, halt tsu dos hitl)—this treasured volume is the perfect gift for any celebration.
Yiddish and Power
by Dovid KatzYiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.
Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition
by Kalman Weiser Eleazar Birnbaum S. A. Birnbaum David Birnbaum Jean BaumgartenOne of the great Yiddish scholars of the twentieth century, S.A. Birnbaum (1891-1989) published Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar in 1979 towards the end of a long and prolific career. Unlike other grammars and study guides for English speakers, Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar fully describes the Southern Yiddish dialect and pronunciation used today by most native speakers, while also taking into account Northern Yiddish and Standard Yiddish, associated with secularist and academic circles. The book also includes specimens of Yiddish prose and poetic texts spanning eight centuries, sampling Yiddish literature from the medieval to modern eras across its vast European geographic expanse.The second edition of Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar makes this classic text available again to students, teachers, and Yiddish-speakers alike. Featuring three new introductory essays by noted Yiddish scholars, a corrected version of the text, and an expanded and updated bibliography, this book is essential reading for any serious student of Yiddish and its culture.
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land
by Harvey Pekar and Paul BuhleA “fascinating and enlightening” collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience (The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side. This comics anthology contains original stories by such notable writers and artists as Barry Deutsch, Peter Kuper, Spain Rodriguez, and Sharon Rudahl. Through illustrations, comics art, and a full-length play, four major themes are explored: culture, performance, assimilation, and the revival of the language. “The book is about what Neal Gabler in his introduction labels ‘Jewish sensibility.’…he writes: ‘You really can’t define Yiddishkeit neatly in words or pictures. You sort of have to feel it by wading into it.’ The book does this with gusto.” —TheNew York Times“As colorful, bawdy, and charming as the culture it seeks to represent.” —Print magazine“Brimming with the charm and flavor of its subject…a genuinely compelling, scholarly comics experience.” —Publishers Weekly“A book that truly informs about Jewish culture and, in the process, challenges readers to pick apart their own vocabulary.” —Chicago Tribune“A postvernacular tour de force.” —The Forward“With a loving eye Pekar and Buhle extract moments and personalities from Yiddish history.” —Hadassah“Gorgeous comix-style portraits of Yiddish writers.”––Tablet “Yiddishkeit has managed to survive, if just barely…because [it] is an essential part of both the Jewish and the human experience.” —Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, from his introduction“A scrumptious smorgasbord of comics, essays, and illustrations…concentrated tastes, with historical context, of Yiddish theater, literature, characters and culture.” —Heeb magazine
You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations
by Young-mee LeeYou Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations provides a critical overview of the history of Korean popular music from 1920 to the 2000s from the perspective of cultural history. First published in Korean in 2017 by one of the best-known critics, Lee Young-Mee, this book is a timely and much-needed source of information on Korean popular music of the past hundred years. Through this English translation, readers are able to make meaningful connections between specific forms of Korean popular music of various periods and the contemporaneous Korean social and political circumstances. Structured around the central theme of generational conflict, the book provides readers with an accessible way to engage with Korea’s social history and a greater understanding of how specific musical works, genres and styles fit into that history. Its strong narrative force helps illuminate the connections between modern Korean social history and the particular trends of musical production and their reception through the decades. You Call That Music?! is an invaluable resource for those researching and studying Korean popular music specifically as well as Korea’s cultural and social history.
You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
by Eric PartridgeThis standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, not an enemy.
Your Voice And Articulation (Fourth Edition)
by Ethel C. Glenn Phillip J. Glenn Sandra H. FormanFourth edition of a text which offers explanations of the processes by which we produce voice and speech sounds, such as consonants and vowels, in American English. Included are exercises and practice guidelines for enhancing or correcting voice quality and the pronunciation of sounds and words.
Yufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar (Routledge Concise Grammars)
by Wen-Hua TengYufa! A Practical Guide to Mandarin Chinese Grammar takes a unique approach to explaining the major topics of Mandarin Chinese grammar. The book is presented in two sections: the core structures of Chinese grammar, and the practical use of the Chinese language. Key features include: Chinese characters, pinyin and English translations Realistic scenarios to provide you with an interesting context in which to learn grammar Varied and imaginative exercises so you can review your progress easily.With straightforward descriptions, numerous exercises, and examples that are rooted in realistic situations, the author shows you how grammar is used in everyday life. This new second edition has been fully revised and updated throughout and continues to be one of the clearest and most comprehensive pedagogical grammars available.
Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop
by Lio Jean-Emmanuel DeluxeThis delightfully illustrated exploration into '60s French pop, and the women who built it, reveals yé-yé music's hip sensuality, humor, style and wit. We hear from and about Françoise Hardy, France Gall, Brigitte Bardot, Sylvie Vartan and dozens of other modern Lolitas, and the recklessly naughty Serge Gainsbourg. Modern-day yé-yé avatar Lio has written the book's Foreword.
Zeichensetzung für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Petra-Kristin BonitzIst bei Ihnen die Zeichensetzung eher Gefühlssache? Sind Sie manchmal unsicher, wo ein Komma stehen muss und wo nicht? Dann schafft dieses Buch Abhilfe! Systematisch und gut verständlich erklärt Ihnen Petra-Kristin Bonitz, warum Satzzeichen gesetzt werden. Sie bringt Ihnen Satzstrukturen wieder ins Gedächtnis und erklärt anschaulich die Regeln, aber auch die Freiheiten im Rahmen der Zeichensetzung. Erfahren Sie zum Beispiel, ob und wie Sie Kommas bei Aufzählungen, Nebensätzen oder Infinitiven mit ?zu? setzen oder das eher exotische Semikolon verwenden. Darüber hinaus lassen sich Satzzeichen als Stilmittel einsetzen - Gedankenstrich, runde Klammern oder doch lieber der Doppelpunkt? Zahlreiche Übungen helfen Ihnen, das Gelernte anzuwenden und zu trainieren.
Zhoutun (Routledge World Languages)
by Chenlei ZhouThis book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province of northwest China. With vocabulary predominantly from Chinese and Tibetan syntax, Zhoutun is one of the Sinitic varieties most distant from Standard Chinese, with unexpected typological features like, for example, case markers, rigid SOV word order, simplified tonal system, negative copula as a disjunctive coordinator and "locutor-referential pronoun" which is not found in Chinese and in many languages. Zhoutun is also a representative variety of the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area in which Mongolic and Turkic languages coexist with Tibetan and Chinese dialects from a long time. This book also describes the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical contexts of Zhoutun. It should be of interest to specialists and students of language contact, linguistic typology, Chinese dialectology, language geography, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, folklore studies, and preservation of endangered languages.
Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation
by Susan HarrowEmile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.
e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital (Routledge Advances in Spanish Language Teaching)
by Mar Cruz Piñole-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital es el primer volumen que aborda de manera conjunta las aportaciones al español LE/L2 de la lingüística de corpus, la biblioteconomía y la edición digital. Es excelente para mejorar las técnicas de investigación a la vez que se toma conciencia sobre el uso de las tecnologías en los estudios sobre el español LE/L2.Características principales: visión interdisciplinar e internacional a partir del trabajo de expertos que ejercen su actividad docente, investigadora y profesional en diferentes ámbitos y en distintos países planteamiento teórico-práctico mediante la exposición de una reflexión teórica y la descripción de casos prácticos sólido marco teórico que se presenta en los dos primeros capítulos estructura homogénea dividida en útiles apartados (necesidades, cómo ayudan las tecnologías y casos concretos) para que el lector pueda localizar los contenidos con facilidad lectura del volumen que puede ser lineal (capítulo tras capítulo) o transversal (por ejemplo, los casos prácticos que se presentan en cada capítulo) materiales complementarios en línea, como, por ejemplo, glosario hipertextual y enlaces a los corpus y programas mencionados en los capítulos Escrito en español, de manera clara y accesible, y con abundantes ejemplos e ilustraciones, e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital es ideal para todas aquellas personas vinculadas con la investigación en torno al español LE/L2: estudiantes de máster y doctorado, directores de tesis (PhD o máster) y profesores.e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital is the first volume that jointly addresses the contributions of corpus linguistics, librarianship and digital publishing to Spanish as a second or foreign language (LE/L2). It is excellent for improving research techniques while raising awareness about the use of technologies in studies of Spanish LE/L2.Main features: interdisciplinary and international vision based on the work of experts who carry out their teaching, research and professional activities in different fields and in different countries theoretical-practical approach through the presentation of a theoretical reflection and the description of practical cases solid theoretical framework which is presented in the first two chapters each chapter is divided into three useful sections (needs, how technologies help, and specific cases) so that the reader can easily locate the contents reading can be linear (chapter by chapter) or transversal (for example, the practical cases presented in each chapter) supplementary online materials include a hypertext glossary and links to the corpus and programs mentioned in the chapters Written in Spanish, in a clear and accessible way, and with abundant examples and illustrations, e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital is ideal for all those involved in research on Spanish LE/L2, master's and doctoral students, thesis supervisors and professors.
on Becoming A Language Educator: Personal Essays on Professional Development
by Christine Pearson Casanave Sandra R. SchecterThese personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals from diverse backgrounds and work settings have grappled with issues in language education that concern all of us: the sources and development of beliefs about language and education, the constructing of a professional identity in the face of ethical and ideological dilemmas, and the constraints and inspirations of teaching and learning environments. They have come together as a collective to engage in a courageous new form of academic discourse, one with the potential to change the field. Many of the authors write their stories of having begun their work with voices positioned at the margins. Now, as established professionals, they feel strong enough collectively to risk the telling and, through their telling, to encourage other voices. This volume is intended to provide graduate students, teachers, and researchers in language education with insights into the struggles that characterize the professional development of language educators. Both readers and contributors should use the stories to view their own professional lives from fresh perspectives -- and be inspired to reflect in new ways on the ideological, ethical, and philosophical underpinnings of their professional personae.
¡Acción Gramática! Fourth Edition: Spanish Grammar for A Level
by Phil Turk Mike Zollo Francisco VillatoroExam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: SpanishFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Make Spanish grammar second nature with this trusted reference book containing over 300 activities - now completely revised in line with the new A-level specifications.- Supplement key resources in class or encourage independent practice at home, with clear explanations of the grammar points needed at A-level and knowledge-check exercises throughout - Prepare for assessment with longer application activities focused on developing writing skills such as translation and summary - Build confidence as exercises get increasingly more challenging to mirror students' advancement throughout the course - Check students' progress with regular grammar tests and all answers supplied online
¡Acción Gramática! Fourth Edition: Spanish Grammar for A Level
by Phil Turk Mike Zollo Francisco VillatoroExam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/EduqasLevel: A-levelSubject: SpanishFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Make Spanish grammar second nature with this trusted reference book containing over 300 activities - now completely revised in line with the new A-level specifications.- Supplement key resources in class or encourage independent practice at home, with clear explanations of the grammar points needed at A-level and knowledge-check exercises throughout - Prepare for assessment with longer application activities focused on developing writing skills such as translation and summary - Build confidence as exercises get increasingly more challenging to mirror students' advancement throughout the course - Check students' progress with regular grammar tests and all answers supplied online
¡Adelante! Uno
by José A. BlancoUn programa introductorio de tres volúmenes que ofrece un enfoque amigable para los estudiantes al español, ¡Adelante! hace que aprender español sea más fácil y gratificante para que los estudiantes tengan éxito en el aprendizaje del idioma.
