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Yiddish language
Yiddish language , a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ; German language ). Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken as a first language by approximately 5 million Jews all over the wor... Read more
Germanic languages
Germanic languages subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, spoken by about 470 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. All the modern Germanic languages are closely related; moreover, they become progressively closer grammatically and... Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
The Indo-European Family of Languages The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hie... Read more
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer , 1904-91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. J. Singer , b. Leoncin, Poland (then in Russia). The son of a provincial Hasidic rabbi (see Hasidism ), he moved to Warsaw in the early 1920s and became associated with the city... Read more
Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich 1926-67, Polish-American linguist, b. Vilnius, Poland (now in Lithuania), Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1951. Weinreich taught linguistics at Columbia (1951-67) and is noted for his contributions to Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics , dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of seman... Read more
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch , 1880-1957, Jewish novelist and playwright, b. Poland. He first came to the United States in 1909, was naturalized in 1920, and lived in various parts of Europe and the United States. He settled in Israel in 1956. One of the most widely known Yiddish writers, he won his first success wi... Read more
Morris Rosenfeld
Morris Rosenfeld , 1862-1923, Jewish poet, b. Russian Poland. His name was originally Moshe Jacob Alter. He worked as a tailor in London and as a diamond grinder in Amsterdam before emigrating to the United States in 1886. He settled in New York City, working 14 hours a day as a tailor while he wrot... Read more
Jews
Jews [from Judah ], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism . The degree to which national and religious elements of Je... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Yiddish language"

Yiddish language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...language ). Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken as a first language by approximately...1969); M. Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (1980); D. Katz, Grammar of the Yiddish Language (1987); D. G. Roskies, A Bridge of Longing... Read more
YIDDISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language YIDDISH. The language used by Jews of Eastern and Central...Israel, and the Soviet Union. Yiddish is a Germanic language akin to English, but with a distinctive...non-Roman alphabet: like other Jewish languages, Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet... Read more
Yiddish Theatre in America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Great Depression remained active and there was even a Yiddish branch of the Federal Theatre Project . But Jewish actors...audiences kept moving to Broadway, and it was the job of the Yiddish Art Theatre , the Irving Place Theatre, ARTEF , and...control of Europe and the Stalinist purge of Russia, Yiddish ... Read more
Yiddish
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Yiddish Language spoken by Jews living in central and e Europe and other countries (including the USA) with Jewish communities. It first developed... Read more
Lithuanian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...of the other represented languages. These included above all...ruskii), an East Slavic language that would eventually be...on them. Speakers of other languages were also present. Lithuanian Jews spoke Yiddish and wrote in Hebrew, Aramaic...originally spoke a Kipchak Turkic language, but ... Read more
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Empire, such as FRENCH and SPANISH . Identifying the languages The number of Romance languages varies according to the criteria used to establish them, such as: (1) Status as a national language, in which case there are five (French, ITALIAN , PORTUGUESE...Castilian) or six if Romansch or Rhaeto-Romanic ... Read more
Germanic languages
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Germanic languages Group of languages, a sub-division of the Indo-European family. One branch (West Germanic) includes English, German, Yiddish, Dutch, Flemish, Frisian, and Afrikaans; another (North Germanic) includes Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. Read more
The Indo-European Family of Languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition The Indo-European Family of Languages Subfamily Group Subgroup Languages and Principal Dialects  Asterisk indicates a dead language. Anatolian     Hieroglypic Hittite , Hittite (Kanesian...West Germanic (see Grimm's law ) High German German , Yiddish Low German Afrikaans , Dutch , English , Flemish , ... Read more
GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language GERMANIC LANGUAGES. A group of related languages including ENGLISH , DUTCH , FRISIAN , GERMAN , the SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES ( DANISH , Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish), and a number of derived languages ( YIDDISH from German, AFRIKAANS from Dutch) as well as the...the early 19c, some ... Read more
SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language SLAV(ON)IC LANGUAGES BrE Slavonic , AmE Slavic . A branch of the INDO-EUROPEAN language family spoken primarily by the Slav peoples of Central...Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat(ian), and Slovene). Slavonic languages also divide into those using the Roman alphabet (western...Russian, as in sputnik a space satellite, ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Yiddish language"

Yiddish
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Yiddish a language used by Jews in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust . It was...Russia. The name is recorded from the late 19th century, and comes from Yiddish yidish (daytsh) ‘Jewish German’. Read more
Levinsohn, Isaac Baer
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...udah be-Yisrael (Testimony in Israel, 1828), described the Hebrew language as ‘the bond of religion and national survival’, and he argued against the use of Yiddish . He also wrote Beit Yehudah (House of Judah, 1838) which was an... Read more
Haskalah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...David Friedlaender who rejoiced in the decline of the yeshivot . Throughout Europe, rich Jews rejected Yiddish and taught their children the language of their host nation. In their desire for acceptance and emancipation, the Maskilim were particularly... Read more
Patinkin, Mandy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...the rest of the album. The Yiddish-language Mamaloshen (1998) marked...Patinkin did not speak a word of Yiddish until 1990. He learned the language on a promise to legendary...Mamaloshen contains classic Yiddish songs in addition to some... Read more
Immigration Restriction
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...provisions, imposed a much-debated literacy test that required the ability to read a passage in any recognized language, including Hebrew and Yiddish, expanded the grounds for mental health exclusion, and created a "barred Read more

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Inventing Yiddish: Observations on the rise of a "debased" language.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the historical meaning of Yiddish and the implications of the language for contemporary Jewish...the modern history of the Yiddish language, as they demonstrate the...writers came to employ Yiddish, a language that had been widely dismissed... Read more
Menke: The Complete Yiddish Poems of Menke Katz .(LANGUAGE, LITERATURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 125 words ; PJ5129 1-882986-21-0 Menke; the complete Yiddish poems of Menke Katz. Katz, Menke. Ed...Smith, [c]2005 779 p. $35.00 As the only Yiddish poet to become a major poet in English...English of the complete works of a major Yiddish poet, poems such as Burning Village (1938... Read more
On the frontiers of Ashkenaz: translating into Yiddish, then and now.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...contingent nature of Yiddish vis-a-vis other languages at a given time...cultures through Yiddish, just as each major European language served its readership...it in any other language. In addition to...phenomenon, publishing Yiddish translations of... Read more
"Babe in the Yiddish Woods": Dos Lied fun Hiavat'a.(Yiddish translation of Song of Hiawatha)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...bitter predicament: Yiddish poets sentenced by history to compose in a language, in Hollander's words...describes the character of Yiddish as a fusion language, a language, almost...worlds of culture and language. Yiddish made it possible for... Read more
[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and the complexities of Yiddish translation.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Joyce had written Yiddish: A Par Ode ). (1...relationship to Yiddish--of what went into...of word play and language innovation. Soon...European Jewish life in Yiddish, the language of the simple people...of praise, as the language of the simple people...sophistication of ... Read more
Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...the attempt of progressive Yiddish-language writers, intellectuals, and...of Eastern European Jews and Yiddish language (from Wissenschaft des Judentums...nation, allowed the flowering of Yiddish-language institutions, and defeated Hitler... Read more
Yiddish after the Holocaust.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...immigrants had discarded the Yiddish language early on in favour of a South...arguments in The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language, 8.13 (28 December 2004...and literary reflections on Yiddish language and culture, the volume closes... Read more
Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...step in defining Yiddish theatre is to recognize the language spoken by a populace as the official language of its stage. As...the uniqueness of Yiddish theatre practice...pp. 115-16). As Yiddish, the language of a culture in... Read more
Yiddish: A Nation of Words. (Books: life in Yiddishland).
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...We will track the language through the industrial...evolution that swept Yiddish into the modern world...respects. Then, like the Yiddish language and the people who...the Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish is the language of the secular world... Read more
The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...the nineteenth century, now it became the turn of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe to be seen as a source...the formerly despised Ostjuden and of the status of Yiddish itself. There was a new readiness to recognize that...pioneering study of Evelyn Torton Beck (Kafka and the Yiddish Theater ... Read more