- 6.9 Canada. 6.10 Religious communities. 6.11 Modern Yiddish education. 6.12 Internet. 7 Influence on other languages.
- There was a movement in the late 19th Century called daytshmerish, which altered Yiddish spellings to make them adhere closer to German.
- Yiddish is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries.
- 13.01.2003 00:31. labour of sisyphus. (bkz: yiddish kinder ).
- Jeffrey Shandler in Adventures in Yiddishland defines Yiddish not as a dying language but as one that has transformed into a postvernacular one.
- In a letter of gratitude, Tel Aviv University expresses its gratefulness to Dr. Mark Zilberquit, the president of the Heritage Projects Foundation (USA) and Yiddish...
- Yiddish, the language of Eastern European Jewry, is a borrowed German dialect. Ladino is the equivalent for Sephardic Jews (Jews who once lived in Spain).
- However, among traditionally multilingual Ashkenazi Jews everywhere, knowledge of Yiddish, at least as a second language, continues to be widespread.
- Home page for The Yiddish Voice, a Yiddish-language radio show serving Boston's Yiddish-speaking community, and a Yiddish Internet resource page.
- YIVO’s founding emboldened a highbrow Yiddish intellectual life that flourished between the world wars and soon used the new spelling as its hallmark.