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‘Bad Yiddish’ is theme of the 2025 virtual Yiddish conference, Farbindungen

JL;DR SUMMARY The Farbindungen virtual Yiddish conference of 2025 has chosen "Bad Yiddish" as its theme, drawing attention to non-traditional aspects of Yiddish language and culture. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yiddish LiteratureYiddishYiddish StudiesFarbindungenYiddish PressYiddish ConferenceBad YiddishYiddish Criminal UnderworldYiddish SocialismMontreal Yiddish

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Krokhmalne Street in Warsaw which was a center of the Jewish criminal underworld."
St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
"Badly (?) Yiddishized Arabic Components in the Yiddish Press, presented by Uri Horesh (University of St. Andrews)."
Crown Heights, New York, United States
"Yoshke in Crown Heights: A Yiddish-Yeshivish New Testament for the 21st Century, by Pamela Brenner."
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
"Yiddish Socialism and Class Conflict in Montreal, by Sam Bick (York University)."
Berlin, Germany
"Yiddish in the Land of the Perpetrators: Newspapers in Jewish DP Camps 1945-1948, by Benedikt Putz (Freie Universitt Berlin)."
Israel
"report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war."

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