Yiddish Language

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש, Yidish-Taytsh, lit. ' Judeo-German') is a High German-derived language historically spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic, as well as - later on - Slavic languages, and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish writing uses the Hebrew alphabet. In the 1990s, there were around 1.5–2 million speakers of Yiddish, mostly Hasidic and Haredi Jews. In 2012, the Center for Applied …

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RAND Corporation · 5 March 2024 English

The authors draw on their research and experience to discuss the relevance and challenges of pursuing the May 2023 U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism at this point in U.S. …

America. 6 The term golden country is a poetic Yiddish-language reference to the United States. 7 The philosophy





Motu Economic and Public Policy Research · 6 August 2022 English

To distinguish between the first and second explanations, we exploit the fact that emigration restrictions had largely been lifted by the beginning of the late refugee period, so that a …

Jews based on Israeli ancestry or Hebrew or Yiddish language. The Israeli census includes data on religion


HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société · 1 February 2022 French

Among Germanic Heritage languages in the US, Pennsylvania German and Yiddish belong to the very few varieties whose future does not look bleak, due to the demographics of dialect-speaking religious …

sei nur auf : Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language (Yale University Press, 2008, 2 Bde) und Dovid


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 19 January 2022 English

revival as a language and culture among both young secular Jews and the non-Jewish population, and Yiddish language and culture courses, studies, and traditional Jewish Klezmer music festivals abound in Europe

Research Service PE 698.881 – January 2022 EN Yiddish language and culture and its post-Holocaust fate in secular Jews and the non-Jewish population, and Yiddish language and culture courses, studies, and traditional fall of the Iron Curtain EU support for Yiddish language and culture EPRS | European Parliamentary o,the%20language%20in%20everyday%20life Yiddish language and culture and its post-Holocaust fate in Second World War (WWII), the centre of the Yiddish language and culture was Vilnius (then within Polish


UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation · 2022 English

Heritage corpus on the migratory networks of Yiddish language and its cultural production in South America Heritage corpus on the migratory networks of the Yiddish language and its cultural production in Latin America


IAP: InterAcademy Partnership · 6 October 2021 English

Even before the implementation of the ongoing vaccination roll-out in the Philippines, TGVES started working with the Philippine Department of Health and the Presidential Communications Operations Office (Task Group on …

community included utilising dial-in hotlines and Yiddish language radio stations that reach a large proportion


OSW: Centre for Eastern Studies · 24 September 2021 English

7 POINT OF VIEW 6/2021 INTRODUCTION The presence in Israel of around one million immigrants from the for- mer USSR, Russian- speaking politicians who are members of the gov- ernment …

twentieth century were mainly rooted in the Yiddish- language shtetl culture, which was a cul- tural enclave


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