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Definition of Yiddish

Yiddish
Yiddish Yid"dish, n. [G. j["u]disch, prop., Jewish, fr. Jude Jew. See Jew, Jewish.] A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. It is written in Hebrew characters.

Meaning of Yiddish from wikipedia

- see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken...
- The Yiddishers were a London street gang based in Whitechapel led by Alfred Solomon. One of their more famous members was ****ure mobster Jack Spot during...
- Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashke**** Jewish community. The range of Yiddish...
- Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
- language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which...
- Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally speak Yiddish, a language that originated in the 9th century, and largely migrated towards...
- Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version...
- Yiddish literature encomp****es all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashke****c Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...
- symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...