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Yi Won
Yi Won (이원, born 1968) is a South Korean avant-garde poet known for typographic experimentation and poems voiced by inanimate objects. She debuted in 1992 and has published six collections.
Yi Yi (一一)
Yi Yi (一一, A One and a Two) is Edward Yang's 2000 Taiwanese-Japanese family drama, 173 minutes, following the Jian family in Taipei from a wedding to a funeral; it won Best Director at Cannes 2000 and reached Taiwan theaters only in 2017.
Yi Yuksa
Yi Yuksa (이육사), pen name of Yi Won-rok, was a Korean poet and independence activist whose resistance poetry under Japanese rule includes "Cheongpodo" and "Gwangya"; he died in a Beijing prison in 1944.
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 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.
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.