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Mensch. Mensch (Yiddish: מענטש, mentsh, from Middle High German Mensch, from Old High German mennisco; akin to Old English human being, man) means "a person of integrity and honor". [1] According to Leo Rosten, a mensch is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than ...
Shiksa. Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging [1] term for a gentile [a] woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish culture. Among Orthodox Jews, the term may be used to describe a Jewish ...
mensch – a person of uncommon maturity and decency nextdoorekeh , nextdooreker – female, male living next door opstairsikeh , opstairsiker (Ameridish) – female, male living upstairs
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
McGraw-Hill. Publication date. 1968. The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish —i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become known to speakers of American English due to the influence of American Ashkenazi Jews. It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten ...
Members of Yiddishist movement, 1908. Yiddishism (Yiddish: ײִדישיזם) is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century. [1] Some of the leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), [2] I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem ...
Yiddish (transliteration) yeder mentsh vert geboyrn fray un glaykh in koved un rekht. yeder vert bashonkn mit farshtand un gevisn; yeder zol zikh firn mit a tsveytn in a gemit fun brudershaft. German with wording and word order as close to the Yiddish version as possible: Jeder Mensch wird geboren, frei und gleich in Ehre und Recht.
The Hebrew name is a Jewish practice rooted in the practices of early Jewish communities and Judaism. [4] This Hebrew name is used for religious purposes, such as when the child is called to read the Torah at their b'nei mitzvah. The baby's name is traditionally announced during the brit milah (circumcision ceremony) for male babies, typically ...