Yiddish literature

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Yiddish literature is the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language, encompassing a rich tradition of poetry, prose, drama, and folklore that reflects the cultural, religious, and social life of Ashkenazi Jews.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish literature
literature
associatedWithPeople Ashkenazi Jews
developedFrom Middle High German dialects
flourishedInCentury 19th century
20th century
hasCulturalCenter Eastern Europe
Lithuania
New York City
Poland
Russia
United States of America
surface form: United States
hasForm drama
folklore
poetry
prose
hasGenre Hasidic tales
Holocaust literature
children's literature
folktales
labor and socialist literature
modernist fiction
hasHistoricalRoot medieval Ashkenazi communities
hasInstitutionalSupportFrom YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Yiddish Book Center
hasNotableAuthor Avrom Sutzkever
Chaim Grade
Der Nister
Dovid Bergelson
Esther Kreitman
H. Leivick
I. J. Singer
I. L. Peretz
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Itzik Manger
Kadya Molodowsky
Mendele Mocher Sforim
surface form: Mendele Moykher-Sforim

Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Asch
Sholem Rabinovich
surface form: Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh
hasNotableWork Sholom Aleichem
surface form: Tevye the Dairyman

The Brothers Ashkenazi
The Dybbuk
The Dybbuk
surface form: The Dybbuk and Other Writings

The Family Moskat
The Magician of Lublin
hasTheme Holocaust memory
Jewish religious tradition
migration and diaspora
modernity and tradition
poverty and social justice
shtetl life
incorporatesElementsFrom Aramaic
Hebrew
Slavic languages
isLinkedTo Hasidism
Haskalah
Jewish labor movement
reflects cultural life of Ashkenazi Jews
religious life of Ashkenazi Jews
social life of Ashkenazi Jews
usesScript Hebrew alphabet
writtenInLanguage Yiddish

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Jewish studies fieldOfStudy Yiddish literature
I. L. Peretz influenced Yiddish literature
Sholem Rabinovich movement Yiddish literature