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Yiddish press

The Yiddish press is the body of newspapers and periodicals published in Yiddish, the vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, peaking in the early 1900s before a sharp post-Holocaust decline.

Yiddish proverbs

Yiddish proverbs (shprikhvort) are anonymous sayings Yiddish speakers use to comment on the matter at hand, drawing on folk wisdom and religious sources like the Bible and Talmud.

Yiddish realism

Yiddish realism is the realist tradition of modern Yiddish literature arising in Eastern Europe in the 1860s, founded by Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh and carried by Sholem Aleichem and I. L. Peretz.

Yiddish Renaissance

The Yiddish Renaissance was the flowering of modern secular Yiddish literature, press, and theater in Eastern Europe from the 1860s to World War I, led by Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. Peretz.

Yiddish satire

Yiddish satire is the body of satirical literature, journalism, and theater written in Yiddish, flourishing from the Haskalah of the late eighteenth century through the Holocaust.

Yiddish sermons

Yiddish sermons are Jewish homilies, most prominently Hasidic ones, delivered orally in the Yiddish vernacular and usually preserved in Hebrew texts, so recovering the original has become a central scholarly task.

Yiddish short story

A Yiddish short story is short prose fiction written in Yiddish, the vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, whose golden age ran from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth.

Yiddish theatre

Yiddish theatre (Yiddish: ייִדיש־טעאַטער) is professional theater in the Yiddish language, founded by Avrom Goldfaden in Iași, Romania, in 1876, later centered in New York, Warsaw, Moscow, and São Paulo.

Yiddish women's devotional literature

Yiddish women's devotional literature is religious writing produced for Central and Eastern European Jewish women from the early modern period, centered on the tkhines, private Yiddish prayers.

Yiddish words used in English

Yiddish loanwords in English (bagel, chutzpah, schmuck, shtick), borrowed mainly via American Jewish English after Eastern European Jewish immigration of 1881-1924; informal domains, no pre-1800s evidence.

Yidishe Kultur

Yidishe Kultur (ײדישע קולטור), "Jewish Culture," is a Yiddish-language monthly journal published in New York since 1938 by the Yidisher Kultur Farband, serving the leftist Yiddish cultural movement IKUF.

Yidnekatchew Tessema

Yidnekatchew Tessema (ይድነቃቸው ተሰማ, 1921–1987) was an Ethiopian footballer, coach, and sports administrator who led the Confederation of African Football from 1972 until his death.

Yidong Huang (黄翊东)

Yidong Huang (黄翊东) is a Chinese nano-optoelectronics scientist and professor of electronic engineering at Tsinghua University, elected a National Academy of Engineering international member in 2024.

Yidya

Yidya was the Canaanite ruler of Ashkelon in the 14th century BC, known from his cuneiform letters to the Egyptian pharaoh in the Amarna archive.

Yield (album)

Yield is Pearl Jam's fifth studio album, released February 3, 1998 on Epic, produced by Brendan O'Brien and the band. A return to direct rock after No Code, it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, went RIAA platinum, and was Jack Irons's last album with the band.

Yield (chemistry)

Yield in chemistry, known as percent yield, reaction yield, or actual yield, is the amount of product obtained from a reaction compared with the theoretical amount predicted by stoichiometry.

Yield (engineering)

Yield in engineering, also known as yield strength or yield stress, is the onset of permanent plastic deformation under load; designs for ductile metals are checked against it.

Yield coefficient

The yield coefficient is the ratio of biomass produced to substrate consumed by a microorganism, quantifying conversion efficiency in fermentation, wastewater treatment, and ecosystem models.

Yield curve

The yield curve, or term structure of interest rates, shows interest rates across maturities for one issuer at a single time; inversions have preceded US recessions.

Yield gap analysis

Yield gap analysis is an agronomic method that quantifies the difference between a crop's potential yield under optimum management and actual farm yields, guiding interventions to close the gap.

Yield Giving

Yield Giving is the personal giving vehicle through which novelist MacKenzie Scott has given large, unrestricted grants to nonprofits since 2019, totaling about $26.3 billion across more than 2,700 gifts.

Yield management

Yield management, now more commonly called revenue management, is the practice of selling fixed, perishable inventory such as airline seats and hotel rooms at varying prices to maximize revenue.

Yield mapping

Yield mapping is the on-the-go recording of crop yield variation across a field during harvest, producing spatial maps used in precision agriculture to guide fertilization and seeding.

Yield sign

The yield sign, also known as the give way sign, is an inverted red-and-white triangle directing drivers to slow and let others with the right-of-way go first.

Yield stress fluid

A yield stress fluid is a material that deforms like a solid below a critical stress, called the yield stress, and flows like a fluid only above it.

Yield to maturity

Yield to maturity, also called redemption yield or book yield, is the annual rate at which a bond's coupons and principal equal its market price.

YieldStar

YieldStar is a family of diffraction-based optical metrology systems made by ASML that measures overlay, focus, and critical dimension on silicon wafers to help chipmakers increase yield.

Yiersan

Yiersan (衣二三, also known as YCloset) was a Beijing-based women's fashion-rental subscription platform founded in 2015 by Liu Mengyuan, charging 499 yuan monthly and backed by Alibaba before it shut down in 2021.

Yifan Cheng (程亦凡)

Yifan Cheng (程亦凡) is a biophysicist and structural biologist who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor at UCSF, known for making atomic-resolution cryo-electron microscopy routine.

Yifang Biosciences

Yifang Biosciences, formally InventisBio Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013 that develops small-molecule drugs for oncology, metabolic disease, and immunology, and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2022.