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Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.
Yiddish Name [2] [3] Pre-Holocaust Jewish population Notes Yiddish Latin Ananiv: אנאניעװ Ananyev City survived. Bibrka: בוברקא Bubrka 2,000 (1941) City survived. Belz: בעלז Belz 3,600 (1914) City survived. Berdychiv: בארדיטשעװ Barditshev 41,617 (1897) City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Berehove ...
Old Khmer: Angkor Borei inscription K. 557/600 [97] c. 650: Old Japanese: mokkan wooden tablets [98] Poems in the Kojiki (711–712) and Nihon Shoki (720) have been transmitted in copied manuscripts. c. 650–700: Old Udi: Sinai palimpsest M13: c. 683: Old Malay: Kedukan Bukit Inscription [99] 7th century: Bailang
Far from being rhymed adaptations of the Bible, these old Yiddish epic poems fused the Biblical and Midrashic material with European courtly poetry, thus creating an Ashkenazic national epic, comparable to the Nibelungenlied and The Song of Roland. [2] Another influential work of old Yiddish literature is the Mayse-bukh (“Story Book
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).
Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews, although many Hasidic and Hareidi groups continue to use Yiddish in daily life. (There are numerous Ashkenazi Jewish anglophones and Russian-speakers as well, although English and Russian are not originally Jewish languages.)
Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of former Eastern European Jewish societies as mandated islands within the surrounding non-Jewish populace, and thus bears certain connotations of ...
Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and Bukovina from contemporary western Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil Oblasts) and from south-eastern Poland (Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland).