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Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (born 1958) is a Yiddish-language poet and author. Early childhood and education Gitl Schaechter was born in The Bronx New York. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools as a child. She attended school at the Sholem Aleichem Folkshul 21 and has degrees from Barnard College in Russian, Columbia University in nursing, and New York University in health administration. She also has a teaching diploma from the Jewish Teachers Seminary. Career She began writing poetry, much of which was published in the journals ''Yugntruf'' and ''Afn Shvel'', in 1980. Several poems were published in English and Yiddish in ''Hadassah'' magazine, the literary journal ''Five Fingers Review'', and various anthologies. While her poems range widely in subject matter, her lyric technique is remarkably consistent. She tends towards short poems of no more than two pages, exploring single incidents or observations fully but using highly compressed langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordkhe Schaechter
Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter ( yi, איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, writer, and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language.Saxon, Wolfgang (February 16, 2007).Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, Leading Yiddish Linguist. ''The New York Times''. p. A21. Schaechter, whose passion for Yiddish dated to his boyhood in Romania, dedicated his life to reclaiming Yiddish as a living language for the descendants of its first speakers, the Ashkenazic Jewry of central and eastern Europe. He was also the third editor of ''Afn Shvel'' (1957–2004), a Yiddish magazine. In Europe He was born Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter in the then-Romanian town of Czernowitz (in German and Yiddish; known in Romanian as Cernăuţi, and in Ukrainian as Chernivtsi). His father was a businessman. Schaechter became fascinated with Yiddish as a student, and he decided to study linguistics at the University of Bucharest. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duolingo
Duolingo ( ) is an American educational technology company which produces learning apps and provides language certification. On its main app, users can practice vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and listening skills using spaced repetition. Duolingo offers over 100 total courses across over 40 distinct languages; including a small variety of constructed languages. The company uses a freemium model with over 500 million registered users. Duolingo offers a premium service which eliminates advertising and offers more features. Duolingo also offers the Duolingo English Test certification program and a literacy app for children called Duolingo ABC, and the company released an elementary level math app called Duolingo Math currently exclusive to iOS. History The idea for Duolingo was initiated at the end of 2009 in Pittsburgh by Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn and his post-graduate student Severin Hacker. Von Ahn had sold his second company, reCAPTCHA, to G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' is a 1997 fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The first novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school and with the help of his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone''. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyumen Schaechter
Binyumen Schaechter (born 1963) is a conductor, music director, composer, arranger, solo performer, and piano accompanist in the world of Yiddish music. He also lectures on topics related to Yiddish music, language, and culture. Many of his songs, choral arrangements, and performances are recorded on video (see YouTube), DVD, and CD. He is a composer (known as Ben Schaechter) in the world of American musical theater and cabaret, and his songs are performed in venues worldwide. He has been music director of The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus since 1995. Early Years The youngest of four children, Schaechter was born in the East New York section of Brooklyn, NY. His father, Mordkhe Schaechter, was born in Czernowitz, Romania. (The city became part of Ukraine after World War II). His mother, Charlotte (née Saffian), was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the Bronx. Her parents came from the towns of Holoskove and Orynyn, both in Ukraine. In 1966, the Schaechter family moved to the Norwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Eastern Mediterranean, southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the Economy of Israel, economic and Science and technology in Israel, technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Status of Jerusalem, Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsfat
Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Safed has been identified with ''Sepph,'' a fortified town in the Upper Galilee mentioned in the writings of the Roman Jewish historian Josephus. The Jerusalem Talmud mentions Safed as one of five elevated spots where fires were lit to announce the New Moon and festivals during the Second Temple period. Safed attained local prominence under the Crusaders, who built a large fortress there in 1168. It was conquered by Saladin 20 years later, and demolished by his grandnephew al-Mu'azzam Isa in 1219. After reverting to the Crusaders in a treaty in 1240, a larger fortress was erected, which was expanded and reinforced in 1268 by the Mamluk sultan Baybars, who developed Safed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukhl Schaechter
Rukhl Schaechter is the editor of the Yiddish Forverts, one of the two remaining Yiddish newspapers outside the Hasidic Jewish world (the other being Birobidzhaner Shtern in Russia, which contains 2-4 weekly printed pages in Yiddish, while the Forverts is a daily online only publication). She is the first woman, the first person born in the United States, and likely the first Sabbath observant Jew to hold that position. Early life and education Schaechter comes from a long line of Yiddishists as part of the Schaechter-Gottesman family: her father, Mordkhe Schaechter, was a Yiddish linguist who devoted his life to studying and teaching the language in the United States, while her aunt was Yiddish poet and songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. She was raised in The Bronx. She completed a bachelor's degree in psychology at Barnard College in 1979,, and then studied at Jewish Teachers Seminary in Herzliya and Bank Street College of Education. She became an Orthodox Jew as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Beyle (or Bella) "Beyltse" Schaechter-Gottesman (August 7, 1920 – November 28, 2013) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter. Biography She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left for Czernowitz, Ukraine (then Cernăuți, Romania) and settled there when Schaechter-Gottesman was a young child. She was brought up in a multi-lingual environment that included Yiddish, German, Romanian, and Ukrainian; she also studied French and Latin at school. They were a singing family and her mother, Lifshe Schaechter, was known for her wide folk repertoire. Schaechter-Gottesman was sent to Vienna for art lessons, but was forced to return to Czernowitz when the Germans invaded Austria in 1938. In 1941 she married a medical doctor, Jonas (Yoyne) Gottesman, and together they lived out the war in the Czernowitz ghetto, along with her mother and several other family members. After the war, Schaechter-Gottesman lived several years in Vienna, where her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schaechter-Gottesman
The Schaechter-Gottesman family is a leading family in Yiddish language and cultural studies. Members include: * Lifshe Schaechter-Widman née Gottesman (1893-1974) – author of Yiddish autobiography, folksinger * Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920-2013) - Yiddish poet, songwriter and folksinger * Mordkhe Schaechter (1927-2007) - Yiddish expert, linguist, researcher, teacher, and writer * Charlotte (Charne) Schaechter née Saffian (1927-2014) - Yiddish piano accompanist and translator *Itzik Gottesman (1957-) - Yiddish journalist with The Forward; expert on Yiddish folklore * Rukhl Schaechter (1957-) - Yiddish journalist with The Forward; host of on-line cooking show, ''Est gezunterheyt'' * Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath (1958-) - Yiddish poet, and editor * Eydl Reznik née Schaechter (1962-) - Yiddish teacher and choir director, as well as artist * Binyumen Schaechter (1963-) - Yiddish composer, choral conductor, piano accompanist, and translator * Reyna Schaechter (1995-) - leading ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysian Tamil, Malaysia, Myanmar Tamils, Myanmar, Tamil South Africans, South Africa, British Tamils, United Kingdom, Tamil Americans, United States, Tamil Canadians, Canada, Tamil Australians, Australia and Tamil Mauritians, Mauritius. Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors. One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a Languages of India, classical language of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
