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The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a mensch is a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. [4] Mentshlekhkeyt (Yiddish: מענטשלעכקייט; German: Menschlichkeit) refers to the properties which make a person a mensch.
Simcha Lev. Kadia Molodowsky (Yiddish: קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was a Polish-American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. She published six collections of poetry during her ...
Henry Morgentaler. . . (m. 1945–1975) . Children. Goldie Morgentaler. Chava Rosenfarb (9 February 1923 – 30 January 2011) (Yiddish: חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב, khave rozenfarb) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature.
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).
Teddi Schwartz. Teddi Schwartz in around 1970. Theodora "Teddi" Schwartz (4 July 1914–13 October 2017, Yiddish: טעדי שװאַרץ), occasionally spelled Teddy, was an American Yiddish-language singer, writer and translator. She is mainly remembered today for her singable English translation of Dona, Dona which she cowrote with Arthur Kevess.
Language. Yiddish. Spouse. Alexander Massey. . . (m. 1912; died 1961) . Ida Maze (Yiddish: אײַדע מאַזע, Aydeh Mazeh) (9 July 1893 – 13 June 1962), also known as Ida Maza and Ida Massey, was a Canadian Yiddish-language poet. [1] Her home in Montreal became a literary salon and she became a maternal figure to Canadian Yiddish language ...
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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 ...