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Zelda Kahan Newman

Academic Affiliation

• Lehman College, City University of New York, United States

Contact Information

• Email: zeldakahannewman @ hotmail.com

Research Interests

• "Jewish" sound of Ashkenazic speech
• Yiddish grammar
• Interface of Yiddish grammar and Hebrew grammar
• Yiddish literature
• Hebrew literature
• Interface of Yiddish literature and Hebrew literature
• Traditional Ashkenaz and women's literature
• Ashkenazic culture
• Philosophy of language

Publications

• Kahan Newman, Z. & Rubin, N. 2007 (in print). שיר יפהפה חדש על שלוש נשים - שיר לפורים. Chulyot 11.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2007 (in print). Layered, Buttoned and Zippered: The Importation of Hebrew into Dos Yidishe Vort. Language Contact 1.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2006. Review of Ayelet Ahavim by Naftali Rotenberg. Shofar 4/3.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2006. Review of Akharekha Na-Rutsa by Yuval Sherlo. Shofar 4/3.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2004. בעקבות האירוניה האבודה: מסיפור פשוט ל"אַ פּשוטע מעשׂה" [In Search of the Lost Irony: From Sipur Pashut to "A Poshete Mayse"]. Chulyot 8: 381-383. [An English version of this paper is to appear in the online journal, Yiddish Theater Forum, edited by J. Berkowitz.]
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2004. The Contributions of Aizik Zaretski to Yiddish Linguistics. The Mendele Review 8.007/146.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2003. Yiddish Haunts: The Yiddish Under-Pinnings of Appelfeld's Layla Ve-Od Layla. Read at the Cambridge Conference on Appelfeld and His Work.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2003. A Smile Learned in Sadness: The Poetry of Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim. In J. Sherman (ed.), Yiddish after the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 266-286.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2003. Five Poems of Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim. Mendele Review 7/2 (25 February 2003).
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2002. English Translation of 2 of Aharon Zeitlin's Poems and 2 Poems of Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim. Midstream 48/5: 46-47.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2002. The Melody Lingers. Midstream 48/5: 18-21.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 2000. The Jewish Sound of Speech: Talmudic Chant, Yiddish Intonation and the Origins of Early Ashkenaz. Jewish Quarterly Review 90: 293-336.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1999. Women's Badkhones: the Satmar Poem Sung to a Bride. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 138: 81-99.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1995. Talmudic Chant and Yiddish Intonation. Yiddish 10/1: 25-33.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1990. Another Look at Scribal Language. In P. Wexler (ed.), Studies in Yiddish Linguistics. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 35-46.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1989. The Text as Referent: An Examination of Purim Torah. In Y. Tobin (ed.), Foundations in Semiotics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 307-316.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1989. The Discoursal iz of Yiddish. In Y. Tobin (ed.), The Prague School and Its Legacy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 73-90.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1988. Is Explanation Possible? Mentalities 5/2: 37-38.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1986. Kabbalistic Ideas in the Women's Yiddish Prayer Book, "Theenes". In M. Gelber (ed.), Identity and Ethos. New York & Berne: Peter Lang. 37-48.
• Kahan Newman, Z. 1977. On the Intensifier Particles den and dokh (Working Papers in East European Studies 23). New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.