Gefilte fish line

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The "gefilte fish line" is an American-English name for a dividing line that divided the area of ​​the former dual state of Poland-Lithuania , which was densely populated with Jews before the Nazi extermination, into two parts, which differ in culture and language. The term was probably first used by Diane and David Roskies in their The Shtetl Book , published in 1975, and is based on the research of Marvin Herzog , who in his 1965 dissertation demonstrated a major discontinuity between the north-eastern and south-western settlement areas of the Eastern European Jews, the he attached to the congruence of the boundaries of various cultural and linguistic phenomena.

The line known as the "gefilte fish line" runs essentially along the border between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Yiddish " Lite " - and the Kingdom of Poland at the time of the Union of Lublin in the late 16th century and separates the northeast Yiddish from the southeast Yiddish dialects . It owes its name "gefilte fish line" to the fact that the Jews living northeast of the line in historical Lithuania (today Latvia , Lithuania , Belarus , parts of Ukraine ) prepared the famous Jewish fish dish " gefilte fish " without sugar, while those south-west of the Line living, numerically significantly larger group of Jews from Galicia , Poland and other regions preferred the fish sweetened with sugar, a preference that has partly been retained among the descendants living outside Eastern Europe.

The term "gefilte fish line" was established in 1999 at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy of Michael C. enema , a professor of Jewish history and culture of Philadelphia added to a paper and has since been in Jewish newspapers and web logs used often with ironic connotation . It is not used in scientific publications or in Yiddish linguistics .

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  1. ^ Diane K. Roskies and David G. Roskies: The Shtetl Book. An Introduction to East European Jewish Life and Lore. Ktav Pub. House, New York 1975, pp. 36ff. (English), ISBN 0-87068-456-6
  2. ^ Marvin Herzog: The Yiddish language in Northern Poland; its geography and history . Bloomington, Indiana 1965. International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 31, no. 2, April 1965 (English)
  3. ^ Steven M. Lowenstein: Jewish life - Jewish custom. International Jewish folk tradition . From the American, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2002, p. 136, ISBN 3-538-07142-X
  4. ↑ Bill Gladstone: This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry in: jweekly, September 10, 1999, accessed: February 7, 2010
  5. ↑ Gefilte Fish: Bibi and 'Bama's Latest Fight in: The Jewish Daily Forward, March 31, 2010 (English), accessed: April 20, 2011
  6. ^ The Gefilte Fish Line Jonathan's Coffeeblog, February 18, 2008 (English), accessed: December 29, 2009
  7. ↑ The Jewish Mason Dixon Line posted by Frum Hiker, November 14, 2006, accessed: February 1, 2010