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Muhr veröffentlichte 1813 seine Schrift "Jerubaal" als Antwort auf David Friedländers "Ein Wort zu seiner Zeit" (Über die, durch die neue Organisation der Judenschaften in den preußischen Staaten notwendig gewordene, Umbildung). Friedländer hatte zu weitreichenden Reformen in Liturgie und Erziehung aufgerufen als Reaktion auf das Preussische Emanzipationsedikt von 1812. Obwohl Muhr dessen Abkehr von der Tradition ablehnte, schlug er dennoch selber vor, auf manches Althergebrachte zu verzichten und beispielsweise Predigten in deutscher Sprache und Chorgesang im Gottesdienst zu erlauben.
J'accuse!
(1933)
The Semitic nations
(1874)
7 kingdoms of the Litvaks
(2009)
Plant names in Yiddish
(2005)
Yiddish linguist Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter confronts the stereotype that "there aren't any plantnames in Yiddish” with the meticulously researched, long-awaited Plant Names in Yiddish, to be published by YIVO in August 2005. This groundbreaking Yiddish-English botanical dictionary draws on literary, scientific, linguistic and religious sources to document a wealth of Yiddish plant names - including many dialectal and regional variants. It is an essential reference work for Yiddish speakers and readers, scholars, researchers, culinary and nature enthusiasts, historians, scientists, and linguists. Plant Names in Yiddish is a fascinating study not only in botany, but also in the development of the Yiddish language as reflected in botanical vocabulary. For example, Schaechter cites Yiddish terms for willow: sháyne-boym, noted in the writings of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and A. Golomb, (from hoysháyne >hesháyne >sháyne - 'willow twigs used ritually on the holiday of Sukkoth'). He also notes that Yiddish terms for the halakhically appropriate vegetable species for a Passover seder have been documented since at least the 12th century, and that "'potato' is regionally known as búlbe, búlve, bílve, kartófl(ye), kartóplye (!), érdepl, ekhpl, ríblekh, barbúlyes, zhémikes, mandebérkes, bánderkes, krumpírn, etc. One town in Galicia, Sanok, at a crossroads of languages and cultures, boasts five different synonyms for 'potato; such examples display the richness of the Yiddish language and its regional diversity. Several important reference sections designed to assist the reader are incorporated into the book, including the English-Yiddish dictionary of botanical terms and plant parts, which provides many words not available in the standard Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary by Uriel Weinreich. The Trilingual Latin-English-Yiddish Taxonomic Dictionary section helps those who may know a word in one language to find it in another. An extensive index (including a geographic index) makes searching easier, and there is a detailed source bibliography. There are many cross-referenced variations of plant words in Yiddish, a useful tool given the diversity in spelling, dialect and region. A special section on orthographical and morphological variations is also included.