 | its distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century... 24 KB (2,353 words) - 14:55, 5 May 2024 |
 | contexts, but "Yiddish" is again the most common designation today. Modern Yiddish has two major forms: Eastern and Western. Eastern Yiddish is far more... 129 KB (12,178 words) - 04:47, 2 May 2024 |
phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th... 22 KB (1,213 words) - 09:29, 16 December 2023 |
 | Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community.... 57 KB (7,913 words) - 21:56, 24 March 2024 |
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... 47 KB (4,719 words) - 14:13, 21 March 2024 |
Paul Wexler (linguist) (redirect from Relexified Yiddish) in medieval Germany. Wexler argues that Yiddish began as two distinct languages: Judeo-French (Western Yiddish) and a Judeo-Sorbian dialect spoken in eastern... 32 KB (3,268 words) - 08:54, 24 January 2024 |
| Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The... 37 KB (4,948 words) - 20:49, 18 March 2024 |
Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and... 52 KB (6,516 words) - 14:39, 30 March 2024 |
 | Old Zipser (Altzipserisch) Wymysorys Eastern Yiddish (which is a form of Yiddish besides Western Yiddish) The dialect area of Nordobersächsisch-Südmärkisch... 7 KB (486 words) - 10:13, 15 April 2024 |
They originally spoke Western Yiddish, which had less Slavic influence than other Yiddish dialects. By the early 20th century, Yiddish was in decline in this... 80 KB (9,726 words) - 10:49, 5 May 2024 |
 | preservation of books in the Yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. It is one of ten western Massachusetts museums constituting... 11 KB (1,259 words) - 21:30, 21 February 2024 |
 | Valley once spoke a dialect of Western Yiddish, traces of which can be still found today in the region. Western Yiddish is mainly a mixture of High German... 32 KB (3,383 words) - 20:34, 8 March 2024 |
Oberlander Jews (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text) Oberland and Unterland was the linguistic one between Western Yiddish and Middle ("Polish") Yiddish: It stretched from the Tatra Mountains, between Poprád... 7 KB (822 words) - 18:23, 25 January 2023 |
| Jewish languages (category CS1 Yiddish-language sources (yi)) for example, with many educated German Jews who transitioned from Western Yiddish to German. This variety of German, used between 1760 and the end of... 22 KB (2,533 words) - 14:45, 26 April 2024 |
 | Klezmer (redirect from Yiddish music) Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements... 71 KB (7,802 words) - 12:16, 3 May 2024 |
Ukraine. Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Eastern Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Western Yiddish... 21 KB (1,980 words) - 09:01, 4 May 2024 |
 | Galician Jews (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text) Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed... 20 KB (2,095 words) - 13:03, 11 March 2024 |
 | Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא; trans. Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which... 17 KB (2,360 words) - 09:33, 8 March 2024 |
and traditionally written in the Hebrew alphabet) Eastern Yiddish Western Yiddish Halcnovian Wymysorys (with a significant influence from Low Saxon,... 15 KB (1,120 words) - 00:22, 20 January 2024 |
 | Ashkenazi Jews (redirect from Yiddish people) יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'; Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, romanized: Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic... 157 KB (17,515 words) - 16:17, 8 May 2024 |
 | Jewish Autonomous Oblast (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text) автоно́мная о́бласть (ЕАО), romanized: Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, romanized: yidishe avtonome gegnt, IPA: [jɪdɪʃə... 51 KB (5,184 words) - 23:27, 27 April 2024 |
 | Jewish prayer (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text) tefillot [tfiˈlot]; Yiddish: תּפֿלה, romanized: tfile [ˈtfɪlə], plural תּפֿלות tfilles [ˈtfɪləs]; Yinglish: davening /ˈdɑːvənɪŋ/ from Yiddish דאַוון davn 'pray')... 62 KB (7,703 words) - 03:47, 6 May 2024 |
 | Glückel of Hameln (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text) Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Western Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended... 52 KB (6,573 words) - 23:23, 5 February 2024 |
 | Ukraine. Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Eastern Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Western Yiddish... 130 KB (10,482 words) - 12:12, 9 May 2024 |
Vilna Troupe (redirect from Federation of Yiddish Dramatic Actors) The Vilna Troupe (Yiddish: Vilner trupe ווילנער טרופע; Lithuanian: Vilniaus trupė; Polish: Trupa Wileńska; Romanian: Trupa din Vilna), also known as Fareyn... 32 KB (3,880 words) - 23:06, 9 April 2024 |
YIH or Yih may refer to: Western Yiddish language's ISO 639-3 language code Yichang Sanxia Airport's IATA code Mae Yih (born 1928), former member of both... 374 bytes (81 words) - 09:25, 31 August 2014 |
| farweissen (to make white). The dough of challah (called barkhes in Western Yiddish) is often shaped into forms having symbolical meanings; thus on Rosh... 64 KB (8,413 words) - 23:34, 21 April 2024 |
 | meat-based (if made with schmaltz). The dough of challah (called barkhes in Western Yiddish) is often shaped into forms having symbolical meanings; thus on Rosh... 26 KB (3,179 words) - 10:52, 24 March 2024 |
2015) (subscription required), Eastern Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Western Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription... 108 KB (9,401 words) - 17:54, 8 May 2024 |
The Jewish Post & News (redirect from Western Jewish News) Canada, is Western Canada's first and oldest Anglo-Jewish newspaper, so described because its language was English rather than Yiddish though its concerns... 4 KB (364 words) - 05:12, 27 February 2024 |