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Memrise is a British language platform that uses spaced repetition of flashcards to increase the rate of learning. [2] It is based in London, UK. Memrise offers user-generated content on a wide range of other subjects. The Memrise app has courses in 16 languages and its combinations, while the website for "community courses" has a great many more languages a
Several prominent Yiddish authors also emerged in this time, transforming the perception of Yiddish from a "jargon" of no literary value into an accepted artistic language. Mendele Mocher Sforim , Sholem Aleichem , and I.L. Peretz are now seen as the basis for classic Yiddish fiction and are thereby highly influential in the Yiddishist movement.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.
The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Alegemeyne Entsiklopedye is a 2022 history book by Barry Trachtenberg, published by Rutgers University Press.
They may include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew. These varieties can be classified into several types: Yeshivish , Yinglish , and Heblish , as well as more flexible mixtures of English and other Jewish languages , which may contain features and other elements from languages ...
Peretz wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish.A writer of social criticism, sympathetic to the labor movement, Peretz wrote stories, folk tales and plays.Liptzin characterizes him as both a realist – "an optimist who believed in the inevitability of progress through enlightenment" – and a romanticist, who "delved into irrational layers of the soul and sought to set imaginations astir with ...
The word Yahrzeit is a borrowing from the Yiddish yortsayt (יאָרצײַט), ultimately from the Middle High German jārzīt. It is a doublet of the English word yeartide . [ 2 ] Use of the word to refer to a Jewish death anniversary dates to at least the 15th century, appearing in the writings of Shalom of Neustadt [ he ] , [ 3 ] Isaac of ...