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Yiddish Folklore

Yiddish Folklore is a systematic academic construct within Yiddish Studies that comprises traditional beliefs, oral expressions, customs, and narrative forms preserved and transmitted within Ashkenazi Jewish communities, distinguished by their embodiment of collective cultural memory and linguistic distinctiveness in the Yiddish language.

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Sarah Gorby, Yiddish folksinger: a case study of dialect shift

Ellen F. Prince · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 1987 · 65 citations

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Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong

Mark Slobin, Ruth Rubin · Ethnomusicology · 1981 · 53 citations

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Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive

John H. Baron · Shofar · 2008 · 39 citations

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How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk Culture

Robert A. Rothstein · Slavic Review · 2001 · 31 citations

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The field of Yiddish: studies in language, folklore, and literature. Second collection. Edited by Uriel Weinreich. Pp. vii, 289. The Hague: Mouton, 1965.

Eli Joel Katz · Language · 1968 · 30 citations

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Authors

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  1. RR
    Ruth Rubin

    Cancer Research Institute, United States

    2 publications · 67 citations

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  2. UW
    Uriel Wèinreich

    Columbia University, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  3. WE
    W. Edson Richmond

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  4. EJ
    Eli Joel Katz

    Columbia University, United States

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  5. MS
    Mark Slobin

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    1 publications · 53 citations

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  1. Aston University

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

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  1. Language

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  2. Ethnomusicology

    1 publications · 53 citations

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  3. Shofar

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  4. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 1 publications · 65 citations

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  5. Journal of Germanic Linguistics

    JGL · 1 publications · 24 citations

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