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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.
Old Khmer: Angkor Borei inscription K. 557/600 [97] c. 650: Old Japanese: mokkan wooden tablets [98] Poems in the Kojiki (711–712) and Nihon Shoki (720) have been transmitted in copied manuscripts. c. 650–700: Old Udi: Sinai palimpsest M13: c. 683: Old Malay: Kedukan Bukit Inscription [99] 7th century: Bailang
Yiddish Name [2] [3] Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Yiddish Latin Ananiv: אנאניעװ Ananyev City survived. Bibrka: בוברקא Bubrka 2,000 (1941) City survived. Belz: בעלז Belz 3,600 (1914) City survived. Berdychiv: בארדיטשעװ Barditshev 41,617 (1897) City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Berehove ...
Far from being rhymed adaptations of the Bible, these old Yiddish epic poems fused the Biblical and Midrashic material with European courtly poetry, thus creating an Ashkenazic national epic, comparable to the Nibelungenlied and The Song of Roland. [2] Another influential work of old Yiddish literature is the Mayse-bukh (“Story Book
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).
Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of former Eastern European Jewish societies as mandated islands within the surrounding non-Jewish populace, and thus bears certain connotations of ...
Yiddish has been spoken by more Jews in history than any other language, [202] but it is far less used today following the Holocaust and the adoption of Modern Hebrew by the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. In some places, the mother language of the Jewish community differs from that of the general population or the dominant group.
The Yiddish Wikipedia (Yiddish: יידיש-וויקיפעדיע) is the Yiddish-language version of Wikipedia. [1] It was founded on 3 March 2004, [ 2 ] and the first article was written on 28 November of that year.