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La lingua senza frontiere. Fascino e avventure dello yiddish

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« Lo yiddish deve ancora dire l'ultima parola. Contiene tesori che attendono di essere rivelati al mondo. »
Isaac Bashevis Singer

In questi ultimi anni lo yiddish ha suscitato un crescente interesse in tutto il mondo, eppure solo pochi di noi saprebbero darne una definizione esatta: una lingua ibrida – un misto di tedesco ed ebraico con forti influenze slave –, parlata oggi da appena quattrocentomila persone e che tuttavia ha contribuito a fare la storia e la cultura dell’Europa che conosciamo. Senza lo yiddish non esisterebbero i romanzi del premio Nobel Isaac Bashevis Singer e di Mordecai Richler, né i film di Woody Allen o dei fratelli Cohen. E le serie tv Unorthodox e Shtisel non avrebbero avuto il successo planetario che invece hanno riscosso. In questo libro, Anna Linda Callow ci conduce lungo le vie del quartiere ultraortodosso di Williamsburg e attraverso le più belle pagine di letteratura yiddish, ma soprattutto ripercorre insieme a noi le vicissitudini incredibili e appassionanti di una lingua senza patria, e forse proprio per questo senza frontiere: una lingua in grado di comunicare, anche sotto la patina della traduzione, «il travaglio di un’epoca, l’urgenza di un pensiero, il desiderio di conoscere e di spiegarsi che è il destino più alto dell’essere umano».

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2023

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July 5, 2023
Another book about Yiddish that fails to correctly place the true origin of this language. According to the universal sound helix, not only German and English are shifting from Dutch, but also French and thus Spanish and Italian. From Hebrew helixes Yiddish (next to Zeeuws) according to the fourth sequence of the W > H > J > NJ, which was rediscovered in 2011, in addition to the already known vertical sequences P, T and K. Not the languages spoken in Italy and Germany, but the spoken PITALI and DIETS in Pas de Calais (Northern France) are the cradle of Yiddish. This Ivriet helixes in Frisian, a term that not only refers to a language, but also to a continuous story in the form of images consisting of dots, which also provides an indication of Diets, because vowels helixes alphabetically (Diets > dots > Dutch / Dojtsj = German). For example, German written in German (‘Deutsch’) seems to refer to eu, but written language differs from spoken language, so the o in /dojtsj/ speaks for itself. The Jewish population fled from the IJzerhoek in West Flanders to all parts of Europe by ship or land, giving rise to names such as Sephardic (from 'seafarer') and Askena which means ‘de schone’ (the beautiful) like Belgica (la belle chica). These 'skone' (beautiful women) refers to the combination of the star constellations Auriga (head), Gemini (the baby), Aries (the arms), Taurus (the fishing rod), Orion (womb) and Cetus (the boy) who’s name is Mrs. Hatschepnut: the woman fishing in the pond, thus symbolizing the Creator alias Mother Nature (and not a paternal God). When linguists like Marc van Oostendorp refers to the 'BAStardized' German, he himself proves the origin of Diets (Dutch), because the French name for the Low Countries, Les Pays BAS, which also proves that Basque originates from Dutch, but when van Oostendorp and Anna Linda Callow do not apply sound rules such as adjectio (words grow longer at the end), detractio (solve at the front), metathesis (turn around), permutatio (read from back to front) and the delivery (space between), then a book like this one by Callow is better left unwritten.
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