Yiddish Final Vocab

Doikayt

Diaspora nationalism referring to the decision to stay and fight to remain in one's home countries such as Poland Austria Germany and Russia

YIVO

Yidisher Visnashftlekher Institute founded in 1925 serves as a center for Yiddish scholarship and standardization of the Yiddish language Goal to enable a Jewish future in Eastern Europe

Autobiography

Author equals narrator equals protagonist Contest goal was to become aware of the life of Jewish Youth

Autobiographical pact

Reader's agreement that the autobiography is true

Holocaust

Attempted destruction of European Jewry and its culture gave religious meaning to the mass murder burnt offering in the Torah Term coined approx 1960

Shoa

Hebrew word for destruction catastrophe

Khurbm

Yiddish word for destruction ruins described every mass catastrophe on the Jews prior to the Holocaust Ringelblum used this word as a translation to Hitler's war on Jews

WWII

World War II 1939-1945

Intertitle

Text card in film

Diegetic sound

Sound that character can hear

Non-diegetic sound

Sound for the viewer to hear background music

Yizkor

Prayer service in memory of the dead series of readings and prayers 1943 May he remember Includes El Male Rahamim God full of compassion and Av HaRahamim Ancestors of mercies

Prayer

Religious communication with God

Lineage

Line of descent ancestry

Tradition

Customs passed down through generations

Nostalgia

Longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy Svetlana Boym

Montage

Simultaneity and polyphony Vogelian montage Ponizovsky-Bergelson's hybrid calligraphy

Built environment

Physical architectural spaces people inhabit

Language

System of communication

Translation

Converting text from one language to another

Canon

Accepted body of important literature

Literary lineage

How writers connect to previous writers Example Sholem Aleichem is the great grandson of Mendele

Literary tradition

How writers connect to previous writers Example Sholem Aleichem is the great grandson of Mendele

Tkhine

A sacred text women's publication for women and men who are like women

Found poem

Uses words from other original sources recombining rearranging and collaging them in order to create new pieces Dalia Wolfson

Tradaptation

Daniel Khan's term A mix of translation and adaptation Instead of translating word for word changes what's needed in order to keep the emotional power and depth of the original

Anaphora

Repetition of word phrases at the beginning of clauses

Paratext

The information given to the reader separate from the writing itself Cover title footnotes author notes etc

Musar

Moralistic Jewish text

Archive

Different from Geniza Archives attempt to preserve and rejuvenate the memory rather than being simply a holding space for old texts

Geniza

The storage area for old worn-out Jewish texts They are kept here for burial Jewish practice of archive prayer books tallis torah etc

Nomadic Shtetl Archive

The project aimed at preserving Jewish history in shtetls With a moving trailer the archive moves from town to town allowing for appreciation and possible collaboration with the townfolk who hold their ancestors writings or artifacts

Commemoration

Remembering honoring the dead

Architectural homeopathy

Revival of Jewish absence presence vernacular architecture redefined in a thoughtful striking idiom Using small architectural interventions to address massive historical traum