- in the
United States,
never developed any
degree of
fluency in
Yiddish. Many "
Yiddishisms", like "Italianisms" and "Spanishisms",
entered New York City...
- 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...
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language from the
Yiddish language, many of them by way of
American English.
There are
differing approaches to the
romanization of
Yiddish orthography (which...
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Yiddish theatre consists of
plays written and
performed primarily by Jews in
Yiddish, the
language of the Ashke****
Jewish community. The
range of Yiddish...
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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...
- Gut (zoology), in East
Slavic languages, also used in English-language
Yiddishisms Kishka (prison cell), a type of cell in
Soviet political prisons Kyshka...
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phonological variation among the
various Yiddish dialects. The
description that
follows is of a
modern Standard Yiddish that was
devised during the
early 20th...
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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...
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Yiddish dialects are
varieties of the
Yiddish language and are
divided according to the
region in
Europe where each
developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
- 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...
