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Yichang
Yichangshi (宜昌市), Yichang City, a prefecture-level city in western Hubei at the middle-upper Yangtze junction; gateway to the Three Gorges, site of Three Gorges and Gezhouba dams, 5 districts, 3 county-level cities, 5 counties.
Yicheng Long
Yicheng Long is an RNA biochemist who studies how long non-coding RNAs and PRC2 regulate transcription, and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2021.
Yichu Digital Energy (易储数智能源)
Yichu Digital Energy (易储数智能源), formally Shenzhen Yichu Digital Intelligence Energy Group, is a Shenzhen company founded in 2024 that builds and operates grid-side shared energy storage stations.
Yichuan Gas Field
The Yichuan Gas Field (宜川) is a natural gas field in Shaanxi, China, in the southeastern Ordos Basin, discovered in 2017 and operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Branch.
Yichuan Longquan Kim Hyung power station
The Yichuan Longquan Kim Hyung power station (龙泉金亨电力电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan, China, operated by Henan Longquan Jinheng Electric Power.
Yichuan-3 power station
Yichuan-3 power station (伊川龙泉坑口自备电厂) is a 900 MW coal-fired captive power plant in Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan, China, built to power Yidian Holding Group's aluminum operations.
Yichun, Jiangxi
Yichun (宜春) is a prefecture-level city in northwest Jiangxi, China, distinct from Yichun in Heilongjiang. It has about 6.1 million people, 18,700 km², Mingyue Mountain (5A), selenium hot springs at Wentang, and Zen Buddhist heritage.
Yicun
Yicun (义存, 822–908), known as Xuefeng Yicun, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk based on Mount Xuefeng in Fujian, a leading Tang dynasty teacher whose community drew over 1,500 monks.
Yidao Yongche (易到用车)
Yidao Yongche (易到用车) is a Chinese ride-hailing platform founded in Beijing in 2010, one of China's earliest, built around premium chauffeured private cars rather than taxi hailing.
Yiddish (ייִדיש)
Yiddish (ייִדיש, Idish, Judaeo-German) is a West Germanic fusion language of Ashkenazi Jews, written in the Hebrew alphabet; roughly 13 million pre-war speakers, about one million today, mostly ultra-Orthodox.
Yiddish autobiography
Yiddish autobiography is the tradition of life-writing in Yiddish, from Glikl's seventeenth-century memoirs and Yekhezkel Kotik's ethnographic classics to YIVO's youth contests and post-Holocaust survivor memoirs.
Yiddish ballad
A Yiddish ballad is a narrative folk song in Yiddish, sung by Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, that tells stories or poses riddles in an impersonal, objective voice.
Yiddish children's poetry
Yiddish children's poetry is poetry written for young readers, a distinct genre that grew from oral folklore and flourished alongside secular Yiddish schools in the 1920s and 1930s.
Yiddish folk song
The Yiddish folk song is a body of songs sung by Jews of Eastern Europe reflecting daily life, holidays, and historical events, first collected systematically in the late nineteenth century.
Yiddish folk tale
A Yiddish folk tale, in Yiddish mayses, is a traditional narrative transmitted in Yiddish among Ashkenazi Jews, including wonder tales, humorous tales, and tales of the wise fools of Chelm.
Yiddish grotesque and fantastic prose
Yiddish grotesque and fantastic prose is a body of Yiddish fiction in which supernatural figures like dybbuks, golems, and demons are central devices, exemplified by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Yiddish historical novel
A Yiddish historical novel is extended prose fiction in Yiddish set in the past, emerging among the nineteenth-century maskilim and flowering in the early twentieth century.
Yiddish Holocaust literature
Yiddish Holocaust literature is the body of diaries, poetry, fiction, and testimony about the Nazi genocide written in Yiddish by writers who were themselves among its targets.
Yiddish humoreske
The Yiddish humoreske (הומאָרעסקע, from German Humoreske) is a short comic work, usually in prose, that filled Yiddish newspapers and collections from the late nineteenth century onward.
Yiddish immigrant literature in America
Yiddish immigrant literature in America is the body of fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir written in Yiddish by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and their descendants in the United States.
Yiddish joke
The Yiddish joke is a body of humor transmitted orally in Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe and later collected, printed, and studied as a distinct body of folklore, summarized as laughter against tears.
Yiddish legend
A Yiddish legend is a traditional narrative told in Yiddish by Ashkenazi Jews, from the 1602 Mayse-bukh to Hasidic tales and folk stories collected before the Holocaust.
Yiddish literature
Yiddish literature is the body of prose, poetry, drama, and religious writing in Yiddish, encompassing a significant period of world literature roughly between 1850 and 2000.
Yiddish literature in Poland between the wars
Yiddish literature in Poland between the wars (1918–1939) was the fiction, poetry, and journalism written in Yiddish in the Second Polish Republic, with Warsaw as its main center.
Yiddish literature in Russia
Yiddish literature in Russia is Yiddish writing by Jews under the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, from the late eighteenth century until the decline of Soviet Yiddish culture under Stalin.
Yiddish literature in the Soviet Union
Yiddish literature in the Soviet Union was state-supported Yiddish writing from 1917 that flourished in the 1920s, was crushed by Stalinist repression, and survived until 1991.
Yiddish melodrama
Yiddish melodrama is the sentimental, music-filled genre that dominated the Yiddish stage from the 1870s, first in Eastern Europe and then in New York's immigrant theaters.
Yiddish modernism
Yiddish modernism is the body of modernist Yiddish literature, poetry, drama, and visual art created chiefly between 1907 and 1939 in centers including Warsaw, Berlin, and New York.
Yiddish naturalism
Yiddish naturalism is the naturalist current in Yiddish drama and prose fiction that took root from the 1880s, applying a deterministic outlook to poverty and social environment, with writers like Jacob Gordin and Peretz Hirschbein.
Yiddish novel
The Yiddish novel is long prose fiction written in Yiddish, a tradition that began with its first modern novel in 1864 and flourished in interwar Warsaw.