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Rikuda Potash
Rikuda Potash ( he, רִיקוּדָה פּוֹטַש; ; 1906 – 15 May 1965) was a Polish-born Israeli Yiddish, Yiddish language poet and short story writer. Sholem Asch called her "the Poetess of Jerusalem". Biography Potash was born in Ojców. Her father Yekutiel Potash was a correspondent for the Yiddish newspaper ''Unzer Lebn''. Her brother Mordekhai Narkiss (1898–1957) later became director of the Israel Museum, Bezalel Museum. Potash's early work was written and published in Polish language, Polish, but following the Lwów pogrom (1918), Lwów pogrom of 1918 she turned to Yiddish. Beginning in 1922 she published a variety of works in Yiddish, including nature poetry, short stories, children's stories, and translations of Polish works. In 1924, she moved to Łódź, which at the time had the Poland's second-largest population of Jews and was a center of Modernism, modernist experimentation. She married poet Chaim Leib Fox, Khayim-Leyb Fuks and they had a daughter, A ... [...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., Hambu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
