- Nevertheless the language isn’t dead although the Shoah and migration among other factors have significantly decreased the number of Yiddish speakers.
- National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (nytf.org). Maison de la culture yiddish (Bibliothèque Medem) (www.yiddishweb.com/english/).
- Yiddish is a language that is used by Ashkenazi Jews that is related to German (but also has many Slavic, Hebrew, and Aramaic loan words).
- What do people do in Yiddish today? There are Yiddish theater companies that perform in New York, Warsaw, Tel Aviv, and Montreal.
- You might be surprised to learn how much Yiddish you already speak, but also, how many familiar words actually mean something different in real Yiddish.
- Yiddish has several dialects which differ in their vowel sounds and certain vocabulary items. Words of European origin are spelled out phonemically.
- Sharing stories, in English and Yiddish, of the diverse ways Jews of all backgrounds - and our neighbors — live, think and celebrate.
- However, one language stood out to me as being my favorite… Yiddish. I enjoyed every aspect of the language, from its chutzpah, to the way it looked on paper.
- YIVO’s founding emboldened a highbrow Yiddish intellectual life that flourished between the world wars and soon used the new spelling as its hallmark.
- This page contains a video lesson in Yiddish where you can improve your comprehension and understanding of the Yiddish sample text.