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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › YiddishYiddish - Wikipedia

    Yiddish ( ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ], lit.'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש‎, historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit.'Judeo-German') [10] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

  2. Jul 9, 2024 · Yiddish is the language of the Ashkenazim, central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world’s most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.

  3. 2 days ago · The Yiddish language is a wonderful source of rich expressions, especially terms of endearment (and of course, complaints and insults). This article is a follow up on Ten Yiddish Expressions You Should Know.

  4. Yiddish is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries. The name Yiddish is probably an abbreviated version of ייִדיש־טײַטש ( yidish-taytsh ), which means "Jewish German". Yiddish at a glance. Native name: ייִדיש (yidish) [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ]

  5. YIDDISH LANGUAGE, language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stocks, the language was gradually molded to serve a wide range of communicative needs.

  6. yivoencyclopedia.org › article › LanguageYIVO | Language: Yiddish

    Yiddish is the historic language of Ashkenazic (Central and East European) Jewry, and is the third principal literary language in Jewish history, after classical Hebrew and (Jewish) Aramaic.

  7. Beginning in the 14th century Yiddish was commonly used for epic poems such as the Shmuel-bukh, which reworks the biblical story of the prophet Samuel into a European knightly romance. Early Modern Yiddish. Yiddish publishing became widespread in the 1540s, nearly a century after the invention of the printing press. To ensure the broadest ...

  8. www.wikiwand.com › en › YiddishYiddish - Wikiwand

    Yiddish is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originates from the 9th century Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew and to some extent Aramaic.

  9. Yiddish is spoken chiefly by Jews of East European (Ashkenazi) origin or descent. Hebrew is spoken chiefly by Israeli Jews or Jews of Middle Eastern origin or descent. • In Yiddish, words of more than one syllable are generally stressed on the penultimate (or next-to-the-last) syllable.

  10. Yiddish literature, the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants). Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired by modernization and then severely diminished by the Holocaust.