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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

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Yiddish language
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Yiddish language , a member of the West Germanic group...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...
Yiddish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa YIDDISH A vernacular language used by Ashkenazic Jews. A language...in Europe in which it was spoken, Yiddish is the vernacular used by Ashkenazic...liturgy and religious scholarship, Yiddish, by the end of the eighteenth century...
YIDDISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Israel, and the Soviet Union. Yiddish is a Germanic language akin to English, but with...It is the only Germanic language to be written in a non-Roman alphabet: like other Jewish languages, Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet...
Yiddish Theatre in America
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Stalinist purge of Russia, Yiddish theatres all but disappeared...tradition resurrected some Yiddish productions in various venues...fewer Americans spoke the old language, many were translated and...well. It is unlikely that the Yiddish theatre will ever become a...
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...number of derived languages ( YIDDISH from German, AFRIKAANS from Dutch...
Germanic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...any Germanic language is in Gothic (see Gothic language ). The North Germanic languages, also called...West Germanic languages are English...German, and Yiddish. They are spoken as a primary language by about 450...
Picon, Molly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...great comedienne of Yiddish theater over a career...appearances in English-language films and plays drew...center of her art lay Yiddish plays, in which she...active was a Yiddish-language group that held performances...Picon refined her Yiddish, and the two went to...
Rappoport, Shloyme Zanul
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The Dybbuk, a beloved Yiddish-language play that has been translated into many languages and performed all over...however. His works, in Yiddish and Russian, included...his earlier use of the Yiddish language, and even the great...
Moldova
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia ...Population: 4,431,570 Language(s): Moldovan (official...Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish languages. Although the Constitution...Moldavian as an official language, it is a regular practice...in the native Romanian language. It was published in Yassy...in Russian and Romanian ...
Ashkenazic Jews
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...are coterminous with the boundaries of the Yiddish language area. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Amsterdam and Venice were major Yiddish publishing centers. Dialects of Yiddish were spoken as far north as northern Germany...

Dictionary entries related to "Yiddish language"

Yiddish
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Yiddish language of Jews in Europe and America, orig. a G. dial. XIX. — G. jüdisch Jewish, f. Jude Jew + -isch -ISH1 .
Patinkin, Mandy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...comprise the rest of the album. The Yiddish-language Mamaloshen (1998) marked a return...Patinkin did not speak a word of Yiddish until 1990. He learned the language...Mamaloshen contains classic Yiddish songs in addition to some other...
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Vissenshaftlikher Institut), an institute devoted to the Yiddish language (which his mother continued to speak throughout...Greco-Roman classical humanities) and different languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, Czech, and German), Freud was confronted...
Haskalah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...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...
Immigration Restriction
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...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
Levinsohn, Isaac Baer
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...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...

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For the Yiddish language, it's no time to say, Oy vay!
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/31/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...have enough knowledge of the language needed to read a newspaper...words from Hebrew and Slavic languages. Yiddish flourished as both a language and a culture -with newspapers...1900s. Before World War II, Yiddish was the daily language of...
Yiddish Devotees Fight to Save Language
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/10/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...2006, at Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel, a Yiddish-language Hasidic school in Chicago. Yiddish is flourishing at the school but devotees...Now, around 100,000 do. New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects the decline...
YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL
News Wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency; 3/4/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Jewish Telegraphic Agency 03-04-1994 YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MAINTAINING A VIBRANT APPEAL. A Yiddish summer language institute had to turn...Research's Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture offers a six...
The Yiddish Kvetch: relating language to culture.(Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...even be that their language has no subordinate...who understood how languages develop to serve their societies. Yiddish, a Jewish language, reflected the needs...Italian, the Jewish language I know best after Yiddish, most of the words...Germanic origin. But both languages ...
Yiddish Lives - A Language That Refuses to Die.
Magazine article from: World and I; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...wrote in a dying language. His reply: "Yiddish has been dying for...ends Any fear that Yiddish rather than Hebrew...Israel's national language ended in the 1950s...to the fact that Yiddish was the primary language of their parents...
Inventing Yiddish: Observations on the rise of a "debased" language
Magazine article from: Judaism; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...currently enjoyed by Yiddish in the United States...new interest in the language includes not only an increase in Yiddish courses at U.S. colleges...granted, Miron notes that Yiddish was far from the natural language of choice for Jewish...
Mameloshn Thriving in Montreal; Bialik School Teaches in Yiddish -- and Three Other Languages
Newspaper article from: Forward; 8/13/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...speak four languages fluently...do so in the language closest to...in eloquent Yiddish, "...Duss...at Bialik, Yiddish is not just a language -- it's...variety of languages, including Yiddish. Capping off...
School brings Yiddish to life: a lesson in language and culture.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...film stereotype, Yiddish--the modern ancestral language of Ashkenazi Jews...contributing tongues, Yiddish is non-territorial...informally on a second language. "It's another...finally right for Yiddish to enjoy a contemporary...
Jews struggle to save vanishing Yiddish: Young and old try to preserve fading ancient language
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/4/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...HASIDIC SCHOOL New York's Yiddish-language Forward newspaper reflects...whose victims were mostly Yiddish speakers, he said. Israel...adopt Hebrew as its state language also caused many Jews to shirk from Yiddish. "When Jewish immigrants...
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Once and Future Yiddish Language; Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Newspaper article from: Forward; 10/29/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Jews of the importance of Yiddish. In a column some years ago...toward the rising popularity of Yiddish studies on the fact that the language finds supporters among...homosexuals.) Rather, he presents Yiddish, together with other smaller languages, as a symphonic alternative...