- — Clay Risen, New York Times, 5 May 2024 Harry Pila, an athletic teenager, spoke fluent French, Flemish, and Yiddish, plus a smattering of Polish.
- Sharing stories, in English and Yiddish, of the diverse ways Jews of all backgrounds - and our neighbors — live, think and celebrate.
- As Yiddish spread throughout the world, it adapted to the language of the majority, both in terms of pronunciation and the addition of words.
- Yiddish has several dialects which differ in their vowel sounds and certain vocabulary items. Words of European origin are spelled out phonemically.
- Old postcards and letters in Yiddish? I can help. Check out new Yiddish words I find on Twitter at #NotInTheDictionary. Tweets in and.
- Yiddish is a language used by some Jews. At first, it was a dialect of German that Jews began to use in Europe about 1000 years ago.
- For much of the last millennium, Yiddish was the lingua franca of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.
- Undergraduates reading for a degree in Modern Languages can offer Yiddish literature or Yiddish linguistics as a Special Subject (Paper XII).
- Primarily spoken by Ashkenazi Jews, Yiddish dialects are divided into Western Yiddish and Eastern Yiddish which includes Litvish, Poylish and Ukrainish.
- Are you wondering what's the difference between Yiddish and Hebrew? We’ve got the 411 for you, as well as how to learn Yiddish and Hebrew and ways to study!