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    the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language....
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    The United States does not have an official language. English and Spanish are the most widely used languages in the U.S. The United States does not have...
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    Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community...
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    the Yiddish language, as well as the culture and history those books represent. It is one of ten western Massachusetts museums constituting the Museums10...
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    to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history. In absolute numbers, the United States...
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    suffrage, or the right to vote, was established in the United States over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities...
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  • The Russian language is among the top fifteen most spoken languages in the United States, and is one of the most spoken Slavic and European languages...
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  • spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances is the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce. It is also the official...
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  • 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...
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    during this time they were seen in the secular world to serve as the recognized language regulator of the Yiddish language. However, YIVO no longer serves...
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    Sholem Aleichem (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
    Шо́лом-Але́йхем), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on...
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  • Yiddish Summer Weimar is an annual summer institute and festival for Yiddish music, language and culture which takes place in Weimar, Germany. Starting...
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    Hebrew as their native language, Arabic 18%, Russian 15%, Yiddish 2%, French 2%, English 2%, Spanish 1.6%, and 10% other languages (including Romanian,...
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  • 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 of...
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    Yiddishism (Yiddish: ײִדישיזם) is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century...
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  • Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
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    existed in the United States. Most Jewish community relations agencies in the United States draw distinctions between antisemitism, which is measured in terms...
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    Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most of its history, Sweden was a larger country than today. At its height in 1658, the Swedish...
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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...
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  • important part of Italian American identity, the Italian language has been widely spoken in the United States of America for more than one hundred years...
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    "Ladino"), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Bukhori (Tajiki), or local languages spoken in the Jewish diaspora such as Russian, Persian and Arabic. The major result...
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  • anarcho-communist journal, The Firebrand, later appeared in the United States. Most anarchist publications in the United States were in Yiddish, German, or Russian...
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    significant drop in the use of Jewish languages, especially Yiddish. Later, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, learning Yiddish has begun to see...
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    Birobidzhan (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
    near the China–Russia border. As of the 2010 Census, its population is 75,413, and its official language is Yiddish. Birobidzhan is named after the two...
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  • the Yiddish language in all areas of daily life. It is a charity with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, incorporated in the State of New York, U.S. The members...
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    party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution. The history...
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  • Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: Moyshe Altman Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim Israil Bercovici Olexander...
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  • Events from the year 1992 in the United States. President: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) Vice President: Dan Quayle (R-Indiana) Chief Justice: William Rehnquist...
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    wrote in the language and in Hebrew. As with Yiddish, Judaeo-Spanish is seeing a minor resurgence in educational interest in colleges across the United States...
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    Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, The New York Times reported that Seth Lipsky "started an English-language offshoot of the Yiddish-language...
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