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When It Comes To Technology, Hold On To Your App. As I walked around the recent International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, one thing was impossible to miss. Mobile applications are being integrated everywhere and into everything. Smartphones are no longer the only devices on which users are downloading their favorite apps. 2010 saw a proliferation of iPhones and Android phones on the market, and with that came a sharp rise in the number of mobile apps being downloaded. In 2011, we realized that we needed those apps on our tablets, computers and televisions. And 2012 will be the year we download apps to our automobiles as well. One of the coolest new devices I learned about at the 2012 CES was Pioneer’s AppRadio 2. Apps will also play a prominent role in the soon-to-be-released Windows 8 operating system. More smartphones, tablets and smart TVs mean more Jewish- themed apps being created and available for download. This is far from an exhaustive list as there are hundreds of other Jewish apps available.
Theology. Context. JewishEncyclopedia.com. URJ. Philosophy and Ethics. Ritual. History. Hebrew. Tabletmag. The Tablet Longform newsletter highlights the best longform pieces from Tablet magazine. Sign up here to receive bulletins every Thursday afternoon about fiction, features, profiles, and more. This is the first of two articles on the origins of the Yiddish language. This week, the late historian Cherie Woodworth provides an outstanding explication of the origins and historical stakes of the split that is roiling modern Yiddish scholarship. Next week, staff writer Batya Ungar-Sargon profiles the academic personalities and their battles in the field of linguistics.
There are several hundred thousand Yiddish speakers today, perhaps even half a million, but the shtetls of Ukraine and Lithuania, where Yiddish was woven into the fabric of everyday life, have faded into dust. Weinreich’s original text and notes were published in 1973, four years after his death. Max Weinreich was born near Riga in the last years of the Russian Empire. Continue reading: ‘No doubt’