 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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WALES: Independents to take on all comers; ELECTIONS SPECIAL: DENBIGHSHIRE As we prepare for the May 1 polls, Kelly Fenna looks at some of the key issues that will affect Denbighshire voters.(News)
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Byline: Kelly Fenna
COMPETITION is rife for council seats in Denbighshire this year with 142 candidates battling it out for 47 places.
The contest could see power swing away from the Independentcontrolled authority, with the Tories fighting to claw back more seats in Wales.
Political hot potatoes this year include council-tax hikes, overspending, regeneration and service cuts, as well as education and hospital waiting times.
Earlier this year, Denbighshire came under fire for its dramatic failings in the education sector.
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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For the Yiddish language, it's no time to say, Oy vay!
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...have enough knowledge of the language needed to read a newspaper...words from Hebrew and Slavic languages. Yiddish flourished as both a language and a culture -with newspapers...1900s. Before World War II, Yiddish was the daily language of...
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Yiddish Devotees Fight to Save Language
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...2006, at Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel, a Yiddish-language Hasidic school in Chicago. Yiddish is flourishing at the school but devotees...Now, around 100,000 do. New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects the decline...
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YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
; ...Jewish Telegraphic Agency 03-04-1994 YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL. A Yiddish summer language institute had to turn...Research's Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture offers a six...
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The Yiddish Kvetch: relating language to culture.(Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Midstream
; ...even be that their language has no subordinate...who understood how languages develop to serve their societies. Yiddish, a Jewish language, reflected the needs...Italian, the Jewish language I know best after Yiddish, most of the words...Germanic origin. But both languages ...
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Yiddish Lives - A Language That Refuses to Die.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...wrote in a dying language. His reply: "Yiddish has been dying for...ends Any fear that Yiddish rather than Hebrew...Israel's national language ended in the 1950s...to the fact that Yiddish was the primary language of their parents...
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Inventing Yiddish: Observations on the rise of a "debased" language
Magazine article from: Judaism
; ...currently enjoyed by Yiddish in the United States...new interest in the language includes not only an increase in Yiddish courses at U.S. colleges...granted, Miron notes that Yiddish was far from the natural language of choice for Jewish...
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Mameloshn Thriving in Montreal; Bialik School Teaches in Yiddish -- and Three Other Languages
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...speak four languages fluently...do so in the language closest to...in eloquent Yiddish, "...Duss...at Bialik, Yiddish is not just a language -- it's...variety of languages, including Yiddish. Capping off...
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 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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School brings Yiddish to life: a lesson in language and culture.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
; ...film stereotype, Yiddish--the modern ancestral language of Ashkenazi Jews...contributing tongues, Yiddish is non-territorial...informally on a second language. "It's another...finally right for Yiddish to enjoy a contemporary...
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Jews struggle to save vanishing Yiddish: Young and old try to preserve fading ancient language
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...HASIDIC SCHOOL New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects...whose victims were mostly Yiddish speakers, he said. Israel...adopt Hebrew as its state language also caused many Jews to shirk from Yiddish. "When Jewish immigrants...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Once and Future Yiddish Language; Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Newspaper article from: Forward
; ...Jews of the importance of Yiddish. In a column some years ago...toward the rising popularity of Yiddish studies on the fact that the language finds supporters among...homosexuals.) Rather, he presents Yiddish, together with other smaller languages, as a symphonic alternative...
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