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Yiddish World Opera brings to life the poignant fate of the Great Yiddish Dictionary
Linguist Yudel Mark aimed to include every single word of the Yiddish language
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Culture ‘Israeled,’ a new Urban Dictionary word, becomes proxy battleground in Middle East conflict
Users have contributed several entries for a new verb — ‘Israeled’ — since Oct. 7
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Culture Jew vs. ‘jew:’ Google’s offensive definition causes a (brief) online stir
The search engine defaulted to showing a derogatory use of 'jew' as a verb
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Yiddish World New edition of landmark English-Yiddish Dictionary includes “lockdown” and “breakout room”
Read this article in Yiddish The world has changed massively in five years – from new political movements to a global pandemic, and now your Yiddish can keep up with it. Five years after the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary was first published, comes a revised and expanded second edition. Both versions, edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Dr….
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Opinion Words Are Battleground in Holy Land
I recently interviewed Yehudah Glick for the Forward. He’s, an Israeli Jewish activist who went on a hunger strike after being banned from the Temple Mount. While writing the introduction for the Q&A, I tried to dot all my i’s and cross my t’s, making sure to mention that the Haram al-Sharif (as the Temple…
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Fast Forward ‘Tweet’ and ‘Geekery’ Make Cut in New Dictionary
“Tweet”, “dad dancing” and “geekery” are three of more than 1,200 new or revised words in the latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) released on Friday. The dictionary said in a quarterly update on its website that it had expanded its entries for “follow” (verb), “follower” (noun), and “tweet” (noun and verb) to…
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Fast Forward Jews Want Perjorative Out of Spanish Dictionary
The representative body of Spain’s Jewish community has renewed efforts to have a pejorative word connected to Jews scrapped from the country’s official dictionary. Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), recently wrote to the Royal Spanish Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, to remove the word…
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