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Yiddish language

Yiddish

yidish

Pronunciation [jd]

Native to Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary,

Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom,

United States, and elsewhere

Native speakers 1.5 million (2013)[1]

Language family Indo-European

Germanic

West Germanic

High German

Yiddish

Writing system Hebrew script (Yiddish alphabet)

Official status

Recognised minority

language in

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Netherlands

Poland

Romania

Sweden

Ukraine

Regulated by no formal bodies;

YIVO de facto

Language codes

ISO 639-1 yi

ISO 639-2 yid

ISO 639-3yid inclusive code

Individual codes:

ydd[2]

Eastern Yiddish

yih[3]

Western Yiddish

Linguasphere 52-ACB-g = 52-ACB-ga (West) + 52-ACB-gb (East); totalling 11 varieties

Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jews, and it is

written in the Hebrew alphabet. Western Yiddish originated in their culture, which emerged in the 9th century in

Central Europe. Many centuries later, Western Yiddish spread to Eastern Europe, where it further developed as

Eastern Yiddish, and eventually to other continents. Western Yiddish arose around 1000 AD from Old High German

most likely around either Speyer and Worms on the Rhine or Regensburg on the Danube. Before 1500, it separated

from German. Western Yiddish developed by adding a Hebrew and Aramaic component and Romance words to

various and more dominant Old High German dialects, and mixing them together.[4][5]

In the earliest surviving references dating from the 12th century, the language is called (loshn-ashknez =

"language of Ashkenaz") and (taytsh, a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German

spoken in the region of origin). In common usage, the language is called (mame-loshn, literally "mothertongue"), distinguishing it from Hebrew and Aramaic, which are collectively termed (loshn-koydesh,
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"holy tongue"). The term "Yiddish" did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature of the

language until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century the language was more commonly called

"Jewish", especially in non-Jewish contexts, but now "Yiddish" is again the more common designation.

Yiddish has six major dialects. Within practically extinct Western Yiddish are Southwestern

(SwissAlsatianSouthern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (NetherlandicNorthern

German) dialects. Eastern Yiddish includes Southeastern (UkrainianRomanian), Mideastern(PolishGalicianEastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (LithuanianWhite Russian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish

differs from Western mostly by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Now, Yiddish is written and

spoken by Orthodox Jews in many communities around the world, but some of them do not know it. It is the first

learned, home, school, and of many social settings language in most Hasidic communities. Yiddish is also the

academic language of the study of the Talmud according to the tradition of the Lithuanian yeshivas.

Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense to designate attributes of Ashkenazic Jewish culture (for example,

Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music),[6] though in such contexts the designation "Jewish" is also used.

History

In the 10th century, a distinctive Jewish culture formed in Central Europe. The culture came to be called Ashkenazi,

deriving its name fromAshkenaz (Genesis 10:3 [7]), the medieval Hebrew name for northern Europe and Germany.[8]

The region of Ashkenaz was centered on the Rhineland and the Palatinate (notably Worms and Speyer), in what is

now the westernmost part of Germany. Its geographic extent did not coincide with the German principalities of the

time, and it included northern France. Ashkenaz bordered on the area inhabited by another distinctive Jewish cultural

group, the Sephardim or Spanish Jews, which ranged into southern France. Ashkenazi culture later spread into

Eastern Europe with large scale population migrations.

Nothing is known with certainty about the vernacular of the earliest Jews in Germany, but several theories have been

put forward. The first language of Ashkenazi Jews may have been Aramaic, the vernacular of the Jews in Roman-era

Judea and ancient and early medieval Mesopotamia. The widespread use of Aramaic among the large non-JewishSyrian trading population of the Roman provinces, including those in Europe, would have reinforced the use of

Aramaic among Jews engaged in trade. In Roman times, many of the Jews living in Rome and Southern Italy appear

to have been Greek-speakers, and this is reflected in some Ashkenazi personal names (e.g.,Kalonymus). Hebrew, on

the other hand, was regarded as a holy language reserved for ritual and spiritual purposes and not for common use.

Much work needs to be done, though, to fully analyze the contributions of those languages to Yiddish.

It is generally accepted that early Yiddish was likely to have contained elements from other languages of the Near

East and Europe, absorbed through migrations. Since some settlers may have come via France and Italy, it is also

likely that the Romance-based Jewish languages of those regions were represented. Traces remain in the

contemporary Yiddish vocabulary: for example, (bentshn, to bless), from the Latin benedicere;

(leyenen, to read), from the Latin legere; and the personal names Anshl, cognate to Angel or Angelo; Bunim(probably from "bon homme"). Western Yiddish includes additional words of Latin derivation (but still very few):

for example, orn (to pray), cf. Latin and Italian "orare".

The Jewish community in the Rhineland would have encountered the many dialects from which standard German

would emerge a few centuries later. In time, Jewish communities would have been speaking their own versions of

these German dialects, mixed with linguistic elements that they themselves brought into the region. Although not

reflected in the spoken language, a main point of difference was the use of the Hebrew alphabet for the recording of

the Germanic vernacular, which may have been adopted either because of the community's familiarity with the

alphabet or to prevent the non-Jewish population understanding the correspondence. In addition, there was probably

widespread illiteracy in the non-Hebrew script, with the level of illiteracy in the non-Jewish communities being even

higher. Another point of difference was the use of Hebrew and Aramaic words. These words and terms were used

because of their familiarity, but more so because in most cases there were no equivalent terms in the vernacular
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which could express the Jewish concepts or describe the objects of cultural significance.

Apart from the obvious use of Hebrew words for specifically Jewish artifacts, it is very difficult to determine the

extent to which the Yiddish spoken in any earlier period differed from the contemporary German. There is a rough

consensus that by the 15th century Yiddish would have sounded distinctive to the average German ear, even when

restricted to the Germanic component of its vocabulary.[citation needed]

Written evidence

The calligraphic segment in the Worms Mahzor.

It is not known when the Yiddish writing system first developed but

the oldest surviving literary document using it is a blessing in the

Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 (with a scalable

image online at the indicated reference; described extensively in

Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten/Frakes, 2005):

Yiddish

Transliterated gut tak im betage se vaer dis makhazor in beis hakneses trage

Translated May a good day come to him who carries this prayer book into the synagogue.

This brief rhyme is decoratively embedded in a purely Hebrew text. Nonetheless, it indicates that the Yiddish of that

day was a more or less regular Middle High German written in the Hebrew alphabet into which Hebrew words

, makhazor (prayer book for the High Holy Days) and , beis hakneses (synagogue) had been

included. The pointing appears as though it might have been added by a second scribe, in which case it may need to

be dated separately and may not be indicative of the pronunciation of the rhyme at the time of its initial annotation.

Over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, songs and poems in Yiddish, and macaronic pieces in Hebrew and

German, began to appear. These were collected in the late 15th century by Menahem ben Naphtali Oldendorf. [9]During the same period, a tradition seems to have emerged of the Jewish community's adapting its own versions of

German secular literature. The earliest Yiddish epic poem of this sort is the Dukus Horant, which survives in the

famous Cambridge Codex T.-S.10.K.22. This 14th-century manuscript was discovered in the geniza of a Cairo

synagogue in 1896, and also contains a collection of narrative poems on themes from the Hebrew Bible and the

Haggadah.

Printing

The advent of the printing press in the 16th century enabled the large scale production of works, at a cheaper cost,

some of which has survived. One particularly popular work was Elia Levita'sBovo-Bukh, composed around 150708

and printed in at least forty editions, beginning in 1541. Levita, the earliest named Yiddish author, may also have

writtenPariz un Viene (Paris and Vienna). Another Yiddish retelling of a chivalric romance, Vidvilt (often referred

to as "Widuwilt" by Germanizing scholars), presumably also dates from the 15th century, although the manuscripts

are from the 16th. It is also known as Kinig Artus Hof, an adaptation of the Middle High German romance Wigalois

by Wirnt von Gravenberg. Another significant writer is Avroham ben Schemuel Pikartei, who published a

paraphrase on the Book of Job in 1557.

Women in the Ashkenazi community were traditionally not literate in Hebrew, but did read and write Yiddish. A

body of literature therefore developed for which women were a primary audience. This included secular works, such

as theBovo-Bukh, and religious writing specifically for women, such as the Tseno Ureno and the Tkhines. One of the

best-known early woman authors was Glckel of Hameln, whose memoirs are still in print.
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A page from the Shemot Devarim[10]

(literally

Names of Things), a

Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary and

thesaurus, published by Elia Levita in 1542

The segmentation of the Yiddish readership, between women who read

mame-loshn but not loshn-koydesh, and men who read both, was

significant enough that distinctive typefaces were used for each. The

name commonly given to the semicursive form used exclusively for

Yiddish was (vaybertaytsh = "women's taytsh," shown in

the heading and fourth column in the adjacent illustration), with squareHebrew letters (shown in the third column) being reserved for text in

that language and Aramaic. This distinction was retained in general

typographic practice through to the early 19th century, with Yiddish

books being set in vaybertaytsh (also termed mesheyt or

mashket the construction is uncertain).[11]

An additional distinctive semicursive typeface was, and still is, used

for rabbinical commentary on religious texts when Hebrew and

Yiddish appear on the same page. This is commonly termed Rashi

script, from the name of the most renowned early author, whose

commentary is usually printed using this script. (Rashi is also the

typeface normally used when the Sephardic counterpart to Yiddish,

Ladino, is printed in Hebrew script.)

Secularization

The Western Yiddish dialectsometimes pejoratively labeled Mauscheldeutsch (i. e. "Moses German")began to

decline in the 18th century, as the Enlightenment and the Haskalah led to a view of Yiddish as a corrupt dialect.

Owing to both assimilation to German and the revival of Hebrew, Western Yiddish survived only as a language of

"intimate family circles or of closely knit trade groups". (Liptzin 1972).

In eastern Europe, the response to these forces took the opposite direction, with Yiddish becoming the cohesive force

in a secular culture (see Yiddish Renaissance). Notable Yiddish writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are

Sholem Yankev Abramovitch, writing as Mendele Mocher Sforim; Sholem Rabinovitsh, widely known as Sholem

Aleichem, whose stories about (tevye der milkhiker = Tevye the Dairyman) inspired the

Broadway musical and filmFiddler on the Roof; and Isaac Leib Peretz.
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20th century

American World War I-era poster in Yiddish.

Translated caption: "Food will win the war You

came here seeking freedom, now you must help

to preserve it We must supply the Allies with

wheat Let nothing go to waste". Colour

lithograph, 1917. Digitally restored.

In the early 20th century, especially after the Socialist October

Revolution in Russia, Yiddish was emerging as a major Eastern

European language. Its rich literature was more widely published than

ever, Yiddish theatre and Yiddish film were booming, and it for a time

achieved status as one of the official languages of the UkrainianPeople's Republic, the Belarusian and the short-lived Galician SSR,

and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Educational autonomy for Jews in

several countries (notably Poland) after World War I led to an increase

in formal Yiddish-language education, more uniform orthography, and

to the 1925 founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, YIVO. Yiddish

emerged as the national language of a large Jewish community in

Eastern Europe that rejected Zionism and sought Jewish cultural

autonomy in Europe. [citation needed] It also contended with Modern

Hebrew as a literary language among Zionists. In Vilna there was

intense debate over which language should take primacy, Hebrew or

Yiddish[12]

Yiddish changed significantly during the 20th century. Michael Wex

writes, "As increasing numbers of Yiddish speakers moved from the

Slavic-speaking East to Western Europe and the Americas in the late

19th and early 20th centuries, they were so quick to jettison Slavic

vocabulary that the most prominent Yiddish writers of the timethe

founders of modern Yiddish literature, who were still living in

Slavic-speaking countriesrevised the printed editions of their oeuvres to eliminate obsolete and 'unnecessary'

Slavisms." The vocabulary used in Israel absorbed many Modern Hebrew words, and there was a similar increase inthe English component of Yiddish in the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom. This has resulted

in some difficulty in communication between Yiddish speakers from Israel and those from other countries.

Numbers of speakers

On the eve of World War II, there were 11 to 13 million Yiddish speakers. The Holocaust, however, led to a

dramatic, sudden decline in the use of Yiddish, as the extensive Jewish communities, both secular and religious, that

used Yiddish in their day-to-day life were largely destroyed. Around five million people85 percent of the Jews

who died in the Holocaustwere speakers of Yiddish.[13] Although millions of Yiddish speakers survived the war

(including nearly all Yiddish speakers in the Americas), further assimilation in countries such as the United Statesand the Soviet Union, along with the strictly monolingual stance of the Zionist movement, led to a decline in the use

of Eastern Yiddish. However, the number of speakers within the widely dispersed Orthodox (mainly Hasidic)

communities is now increasing. Although used in various countries, Yiddish has attained official recognition as a

minority language only in Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands and Sweden.

Reports of the number of current Yiddish speakers vary significantly. Ethnologue estimated in 2013 there were

1,505,030 speakers of Eastern Yiddish, of which over one-third lived in the United States. In contrast, the Modern

Language Association reports fewer than 200,000 in the United States. [14] Western Yiddish, which had "several tens

of thousands of speakers" on the eve of the Holocaust, is reported by Ethnologue to have had an "ethnic population"

of slightly below 50,000 in 2000.[1] Other estimates are also given, for example, of a worldwide Yiddish-speaking

population of about two million in 1996 in a report by the Council of Europe.[15]

Further demographic informationabout the recent status of what is treated as an Eastern-Western dialect continuum is provided in the YIVOLanguage
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and Cultural Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (Language and Cultural Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry).

Status as a language

There has been frequent debate about the extent of the linguistic independence of Yiddish from the languages that it

absorbed. There has been periodic assertion that Yiddish is a dialect of German, or even "just broken German, more

of a linguistic mishmash than a true language".[16]

Even when recognized as an autonomous language, it hassometimes been referred to as Judeo-German, along the lines of other Jewish languages like Judeo-Persian or

Judeo-French. A widely cited summary of attitudes in the 1930s was published by Max Weinreich, quoting a remark

by an auditor of one of his lectures: (a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an

armey un flot"A language is a dialect with an army and navy", facsimile excerpt [17] discussed in detail in a

separate article). More recently, Prof. Paul Wexler, of Tel Aviv University in Israel, has proposed that Eastern

Yiddish should be classified as a Slavic language, formed by the relexification of Judeo-Slavic dialects by

Judeo-German.

Israel and Zionism

The national languages of Israel are Hebrew and Arabic. The debate in Zionist circles over the use of Yiddish inIsrael and in the Diaspora in preference to Hebrew also reflected the tensions between religious and secular Jewish

lifestyles. Many secular Zionists wanted Hebrew as the sole language of Jews, to contribute to a national cohesive

identity. Traditionally religious Jews, on the other hand, preferred use of Yiddish, viewing Hebrew as a respected

holy language reserved for prayer and religious study. In the early 20th century, Zionist activists in Palestine tried to

eradicate the use of Yiddish among Jews in preference to Hebrew, and make its use socially unacceptable.

This conflict also reflected the opposing views among secular Jews worldwide, one side seeing Hebrew (and

Zionism) and the other Yiddish (and Internationalism) as the means of defining Jewish nationalism. In the 1920s and

1930s, gdud meginy hasaf, "the language defendants regiment", whose motto was ivr, dabr ivrt "Hebrew [i.e.

Jew], speak Hebrew!", used to tear down signs written in "foreign" languages and disturb Yiddish theatre

gatherings.[18] However, according to linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, the members of this group in particular, and the

Hebrew revival in general, did not succeed in uprooting Yiddish patterns (as well as the patterns of other European

languages Jewish immigrants spoke) within what he calls "Israeli", i.e. Modern Hebrew. Zuckermann believes that

"Israeli does include numerous Hebrew elements resulting from a conscious revival but also numerous pervasive

linguistic features deriving from a subconscious survival of the revivalists mother tongues, e.g. Yiddish."[19]

After the founding of the State of Israel, a massive wave of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries arrived. In short

order, these Mizrachi (literally: eastern) Jews and their descendants would account for nearly half the Jewish

population. While all were at least familiar with Hebrew as a liturgical language, essentially none had any contact

with or affinity for Yiddish (some, of Sephardic origin, spoke Ladino, others various Judeo-Arabic vernaculars).

Thus, Hebrew emerged as the dominant linguistic common denominator between the different population groups.In religious circles, it is the Ashkenazi Haredi Jews, particularly the Hasidic Jews and the Lithuanian yeshiva world

(see Lithuanian Jews), who continue to teach, speak and use Yiddish, making it a language used regularly by

hundreds of thousands of Haredi Jews today. The largest of these centers are in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem.

There is a growing revival of interest in Yiddish culture among secular Israelis, with the flourishing of new proactive

cultural organizations like YUNG YiDiSH, as well as Yiddish theater (usually with simultaneous translation to

Hebrew and Russian) and young people are taking university courses in Yiddish, some achieving considerable

fluency.[20]
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Former Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union during the 1920s, Yiddish was promoted as the language of the Jewish proletariat. It was one of

the official languages of the Byelorussian SSR, as well as several agricultural districts of the Galician SSR. A public

educational system entirely based on the Yiddish language was established and comprised kindergartens, schools,

and higher educational institutions (technical schools, rabfaks and other university departments). At the same time,

Hebrew was considered a bourgeois language and its use was generally discouraged. The vast majority of theYiddish-language cultural institutions were closed in the late 1930s along with cultural institutions of other ethnic

minorities lacking administrative entities of their own. After the Second World War, growing anti-Semitic

tendencies in Soviet politics drove Yiddish from most spheres. The last Yiddish-language schools, theaters and

publications were closed by the end of the 1940s. It continued to be spoken widely for decades, nonetheless, in areas

with compact Jewish populations (primarily in Moldova, Ukraine, and to a lesser extent Belarus).

In the former Soviet states, presently active Yiddish authors include Yoysef Burg (Chernivtsi 1912-2009) and

Aleksander Beyderman (b. 1949, Odessa). Publication of an earlier Yiddish periodical ( - der fraynd; lit.

"The Friend"), was resumed in 2004 with (der nayer fraynd; lit. "The New Friend", St. Petersburg).

Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian

Federation

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast was formed in 1934 in the Russian Far

East, with its capital city in Birobidzhan and Yiddish as its official

language. The intention was for the Soviet Jewish population to settle

there. Jewish cultural life was revived in Birobidzhan much earlier than

elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Yiddish theaters began opening in the

1970s. The newspaper (Der Birobidzhaner

Shtern; lit: "The Birobidzhan Star") includes a Yiddish section.

Although the official status of the language was not retained by the

Russian Federation, its cultural significance is still recognized and

bolstered. The First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for

Yiddish Language and Culture was launched in 2007.

Russia

On the 2010 census, 1,683 people speak Yiddish in Russia, approximately 1% of all the Jews of the Russian

Federation. According to Mikhail Shvydkoy, former Minister of Culture of Russia and himself of Jewish origin,

Yiddish culture in Russia is gone, and its revival is unlikely.

Council of Europe

Several countries which ratified the 1992 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages have included

Yiddish in the list of their recognized minority languages: the Netherlands (1996), Sweden (2000), Poland (2009),

Romania (2008), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2010). In 2005, Ukraine did not mention Yiddish as such, but "the

language(s) of the Jewish ethnic minority".[21]
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Sweden

Banner from the first issue of theJidische

Folkschtime (Yiddish People's Voice), published

in Stockholm, 12 January 1917.

In June 1999, the Swedish Parliament enacted legislation giving

Yiddish legal status[22] as one of the country's official minority

languages (entering into effect in April 2000). The rights thereby

conferred are not detailed, but additional legislation was enacted in

June 2006 establishing a new governmental agency, The SwedishNational Language Council, the mandate of which instructs it to

"collect, preserve, scientifically research, and spread material about the

national minority languages", naming them all explicitly, including

Yiddish. When announcing this action, the government made an

additional statement about "simultaneously commencing completely

new initiatives for... Yiddish [and the other minority languages]".

The Swedish government publishes documents in Yiddish, of which the most recent details the national action plan

for human rights.[23] An earlier one provides general information about national minority language policies.[24]

On 6 September 2007, it became possible to register Internet domains with Yiddish names in the national top-leveldomain .SE.

Ukraine

Yiddish was an official language of the Ukrainian People's Republic (191721).[25][26]

United States

Yiddish distribution in the United States. More

than 100,000 speakers More than 10,000

speakers More than 5,000 speakers More than

1,000 speakers Fewer than 1,000 speakers

At first, in the United States most Jews were of Sephardic origin, and

hence did not speak Yiddish. It was not until the mid to late 19th

century, as first German, then Eastern European, Jews arrived in thenation, that Yiddish became dominant within the immigrant

community. This helped to bond Jews from many countries.

(forverts Yiddish Forward) was one of seven Yiddish

daily newspapers in New York City, and other Yiddish newspapers

served as a forum for Jews of all European backgrounds. The Yiddish

Forward still appears weekly and is also available in an online

edition.[27] It remains in wide distribution, together with

(der algemeyner zhurnal Algemeiner Journal;

algemeyner = general) a Lubavitcher newspaper which is also

published weekly and appears online.

[28]

The widest-circulation Yiddish newspapers are probably the weekly issuesDer Yid ( = The Jew) and Der Blatt ( ; blat = paper) and Di Tzeitung ( ; = the newspaper)

. Several additional newspapers and magazines are in regular production, such as the monthly publications

(Der Shtern; shtern = star) and (Der Blick; blik = view). (The romanized titles cited in this

paragraph are in the form given on the masthead of each publication and may be at some variance both with the

literal Yiddish title and the transliteration rules otherwise applied in this article.) Thriving Yiddish theater, especially

in the New York City Yiddish Theater District, kept the language vital. Interest in klezmer music provided another

bonding mechanism.
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Women surrounded by posters in English and

Yiddish supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt,

Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor

Party teach other women how to vote, 1936.

Most of the Jewish immigrants to the New York metropolitan area

during the years of Ellis Island considered Yiddish their native

language; however, native Yiddish speakers tended not to pass the

language on to their children, who assimilated and spoke English. For

example, Isaac Asimov states in his autobiography, In Memory Yet

Green, that Yiddish was his first and sole spoken language andremained so for about two years after he emigrated to the United States

as a small child. By contrast, Asimov's younger siblings, born in the

United States, never developed any degree of fluency in Yiddish.

Many "Yiddishisms," like "Italianisms" and "Spanishisms," entered the spoken New York dialect, often used by

Jews and non-Jews alike, unaware of the linguistic origin of the phrases. Yiddish words used in English weredocumented extensively by Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish; see also the list of English words of Yiddish origin.

In 1976, the Canadian-born American author Saul Bellow received the Nobel Prize in literature. He was fluent in

Yiddish, and translated several Yiddish poems and stories into English, including Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpel

the Fool".

In 1978, the Polish-born Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, a resident of the United States, received the Nobel

Prize in literature.

Legal scholars Eugene Volokh and Alex Kozinski argue that Yiddish is supplanting Latin as the spice in American

legal argot.[29]

Present U.S. speaker population

In the 2000 census, 178,945 people in the United States reported speaking Yiddish at home. Of these speakers,

113,515 lived in New York (63.43% of American Yiddish speakers); 18,220 in Florida (10.18%); 9,145 in New

Jersey (5.11%);and 8,950 in California (5.00%). The remaining states with speaker populations larger than 1,000 are

Pennsylvania (5,445), Ohio (1,925), Michigan (1,945), Massachusetts (2,380), Maryland (2,125), Illinois (3,510),

Connecticut (1,710), and Arizona (1,055). The population is largely elderly: 72,885 of the speakers were older than

65, 66,815 were between 18 and 64, and only 39,245 were age 17 or lower. [30] In the six years since the 2000 census,

the 2006 American Community Survey reflected an estimated 15 percent decline of people speaking Yiddish at

home in the U.S. to 152,515.

There are a few predominantly Hasidic communities in the United States in which Yiddish remains the majoritylanguage. Kiryas Joel, New York is one such; in the 2000 census, nearly 90% of residents of Kiryas Joel reported

speaking Yiddish at home.[31]

United Kingdom

There are well over 30,000 Yiddish speakers in the United Kingdom, and several thousand children now have

Yiddish as a first language. The largest group of Yiddish speakers in Britain reside in the Stamford Hill district of

North London, but there are sizable communities in Golders Green, Stoke Newington, Greater Manchester (in parts

of Salford; mainly in the Broughton and Kersal areas, North Manchester and in the north Manchester suburb of

Prestwich) and Gateshead.[32] The Yiddish readership in the UK is mainly reliant upon imported material from the

United States and Israel for newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. However, the London-based weekly

Jewish Tribune, has a small section in Yiddish called Idishe Tribune.
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Canada

Montreal (Quebec)

Montreal had and to some extent still has one of the most thriving Yiddish communities in North America. Yiddish

was Montreal's third language (after French and English) for the entire first half of the twentieth century. Der

Kanader Adler ("The Canadian Eagle", founded by Hirsch Wolofsky), Montreals daily Yiddish newspaper,

appeared from 1907 to 1988.[33] The Monument National was the center of Yiddish theater from 1896 until the

construction of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, inaugurated on September 24, 1967, where the established

resident theater, the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, remains the only permanent Yiddish theatre in North

America. The theatre group also tours Canada, US, Israel, and Europe.[34]

Even though Yiddish has receded, it is the immediate ancestral language of Montrealers like Mordecai Richler,

Leonard Cohen as well as former interim city mayor Michael Applebaum. Besides Yiddish-speaking activists, it

remains today the native everyday language of 15,000 Montreal Hassidim.

Religious communities

A typical poster-hung wall in Jewish Brooklyn,

New York

The major exception to the decline of spoken Yiddish can be found in

Haredi communities all over the world. In some of the more closely

knit such communities Yiddish is spoken as a home and schooling

language, especially in Hasidic, Litvish or Yeshivish communities such

as Brooklyn's Borough Park, Williamsburg and Crown Heights, and in

the communities of Monsey, Kiryas Joel and New Square in New York

State (over 88% of the population of Kiryas Joel is reported to speak

Yiddish at home.[35]) Also in New Jersey Yiddish is widely spoken

mostly in Lakewood but also in smaller towns with yeshivos such as

Passaic, Teaneck and elsewhere. Yiddish is also widely spoken in the

Antwerp Jewish community and in Haredi communities such as the

ones in London, Manchester and Montreal. Yiddish is also spoken in

many communities throughout Israel. Among most Ashkenazi Haredim, Hebrew is generally reserved for prayer,

while Yiddish is used for religious studies as well as a home and business language. In Israel, however, Haredim

commonly speak Hebrew, with the notable exception of many Hasidic communities. However, some Haredim who

use Modern Hebrew also understand Yiddish. There are some who send their children to schools in which the

primary language of instruction is Yiddish. Members of movements such as Satmar Hasidism, who view the

commonplace use of Hebrew as a form of Zionism, use Yiddish almost exclusively.

Hundreds of thousands of young children around the globe have been, and are still, taught to translate the texts of the

Torah into Yiddish. This process is called (taytshn)"translating" . Most Ashkenazi yeshivas' highest levellectures in Talmud and Halakha are delivered in Yiddish by the rosh yeshivas as well as ethical talks of mussar.

Hasidic rebbes generally use only Yiddish to converse with their followers and to deliver their various Torah talks,

classes, and lectures. The linguistic style and vocabulary of Yiddish have influenced the manner in which many

Orthodox Jews who attend yeshivas speak English. This usage is distinctive enough that it has been dubbed

"Yeshivish".

While Hebrew remains the language of Jewish prayer, the Hasidim have mixed some Yiddish into their Hebrew, and

are also responsible for a significant secondary religious literature written in Yiddish. For example, the tales about

the Baal Shem Tov were written largely in Yiddish. As well as the Torah Talks of the late Lubavitch leaders are

published in their original form, Yiddish. In addition, some prayers, such as the Got fun Avrohom, were composed

and are recited in Yiddish.
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Modern Yiddish education

A road sign in Yiddish (except for the word

"sidewalk") at an official construction site in the

Monsey hamlet, a community with thousands of

Yiddish speakers, in Ramapo, New York.

There has been a resurgence in Yiddish learning in recent times among

many from around the world with Jewish ancestry. The language

which had lost many of its native speakers during WWII has been

making somewhat of a comeback. In Poland, which traditionally had

Yiddish speaking communities, a particular museum has begun torevive Yiddish education and culture. Located in Krakw, the Galicia

Jewish Museum offers classes in Yiddish Language Instruction and

workshops on Yiddish Songs. The museum has taken steps to revive

the culture through concerts and events held on site. There are various

Universities worldwide which now offer Yiddish programs based on

the YIVO Yiddish standard. Many of these programs are held during

the summer and are attended by Yiddish enthusiasts from around the

world. One such school located within Vilnius University (Vilnius

Yiddish Institute) was the first Yiddish center of higher learning to be established in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe.

Vilnius Yiddish Institute is an integral part of the four-century-old Vilnius University. Published Yiddish scholar andresearcher Dovid Katz is among the Faculty. Other schools which offer Yiddish programs include Tel Aviv

University, Brandeis University, Monash University, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, University College

London, University of Oxford, University of Maryland, YIVO, New York University, Hampshire College campus at

Amherst (home of the National Yiddish Book Center), Binghamton University, Harvard University, Stanford

University, University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, Bloomington, The Ohio State University, University of

Dsseldorf, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Vassar College, UMass Amherst, McGill University,

UCLA, Emory University in Atlanta, University of Virginia, the University of Manitoba,[36] and the University of

Sao Paulo, in Brazil.[37] Despite this growing popularity among many American Jews, finding opportunities for

practical use of Yiddish is becoming increasingly difficult, and thus many students have trouble learning to speak the

language. One solution has been the establishment of a farm in Goshen, New York for Yididshists.

Internet community

Google Translate includes Yiddish as one of its languages, as do Wikipedia and Facebook.

Over ten thousand Yiddish texts, estimated as over 1/2 of all the published works in Yiddish, are now online based

on the work of the Yiddish Book Center, volunteers, and the Internet Archive.

Many websites on the Internet are in Yiddish. In January 2013, The Forward announced the launch of a new Yiddish

version of their magazine.

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2005, ISBN 0-312-30741-1.

Wexler, Paul, Two-Tiered Relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect,

Berlin, New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 3-11-017258-5.

Witriol, Joseph, (1974, unpublished)Mumme Loohshen: An Anatomy of Yiddish London, now available online

(http://mummeloohshen.wordpress. com/)

Katz, Hirshe-Dovid, 1992. Code of Yiddish spelling ratified in 1992 by the programmes in Yiddish language and

literature at Bar Ilan University, Oxford University Tel Aviv University, Vilnius University. Oxford: Oksforder

Yiddish Press in cooperation with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. ISBN 1-897744-01-3

Wexler, Paul, 1992, The Balkan Substratum of Yiddish: A Reassessment of the Unique Romance and Greek

Components, O. Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-03336
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Further reading

Periodicals

YIVO Bleter, pub. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC, initial series (http://www.yivo.org/aboutyivo/

timeline3.htm) from 1931, new series (http://www.yivoinstitute.org/publications/index.php?tid=123&

aid=319) since 1991. Afn Shvel, pub. League for Yiddish, NYC, since 1940; (http://www.leagueforyiddish.org/ishi.

html), sample article Our Peretz (http://docs.leagueforyiddish.org/undzer-perets-artikl.pdf)

Lebns-fragn, by-monthly for social issues, current affairs, and culture, Tel Aviv, since 1951; - (http://

lebnsfragn.com/about.html), current issue (http://lebnsfragn.com/index.html)

Yerusholaymer Almanakh, periodical collection of Yiddish literature and culture, Jerusalem, since 1973;

(http://yiddish-almanach.org/index.php/the-yerusholaymer-almanakh/), new volume,

contents and downloads (http://yiddish-almanach.org/)

Der Yiddisher Tam-Tam, pub. Maison de la Culture Yiddish, Paris, since 1994, also available in electronic format

(http://www.yiddishweb.com/tamtam.htm).

Yidishe Heftn, pub. Le Cercle Bernard Lazare, Paris, since 1996, sample cover (http://mapage.noos.fr/bernardlazare/CahiersY.htm), subscription info (http://www.bernardlazare.org/).

Gilgulim, naye shafungen, new literary magazine, Paris, since 2008; , (http://gilgulim.org/

)

External links

Yiddish (http://www.yivoinstitute.org/downloads/Yiddish.pdf), by Dovid Katz, Institute for Jewish Research

Lorne Rozovsky,Path to Extinction: The Declining Health of Jewish Languages(http://www.chabad.org/

library/article_cdo/aid/1051135/jewish/Path-to-Extinction.htm)

www.medienhilfe.org (http:/

/

www.

medienhilfe.org/

page/

index.php?rubrik=0029&

id=0061) First overviewabout Yiddish media worldwide of Internationale Medienhilfe organization

yidish lebt project open-source dictionary, spellchecker, keyboard for windows, and other stuff for yidish

language (http://jidysz.net/)

http:/ /lib.cet.ac.il/pages/item.asp?item=12887 Israeli Government Portal: Yiddish

Free Yiddish Dictionary (http://www.yiddishdictionary.co.il/)

On-line Yiddish dictionary (http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/)

A Dictionary of the Yiddish Language (http://books.google. com/books?id=dnMVAAAAYAAJ) by Alexander

Harkavy, 1898 (from Google Books); 1910 edition (online), 6th edition (http://www.cs. uky.edu/~raphael/

yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.html)

Verterbukh Yiddish Resources Online (http:/

/

www.

verterbukh.

org/

) Yiddish Book Center (http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/)

Jewish Language Research Website: Yiddish (http://www.jewish-languages.org/yiddish.html)

SBS Weekly Yiddish News (Australia) (http://www.sbs. com.au/yourlanguage/yiddish)

Yiddish Typewriter (http://www.cs. engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.html) converts Yiddish

text to Hebrew script with YIVO transliteration

WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue Yiddish Sources (http://yiddish-sources.com/) Academic

portal for Yiddish Studies, includes an online bibliography.

'Hover & Hear' New York Yiddish pronunciations (http://www.languagesandpeoples.com/Eng/Direct/

Germanic/SglLgYiddishNewYork.htm), and compare with equivalents in English and other Germanic

languages. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (http://yivo.org/)
http://yivo.org/http://www.languagesandpeoples.com/Eng/Direct/Germanic/SglLgYiddishNewYork.htmhttp://www.languagesandpeoples.com/Eng/Direct/Germanic/SglLgYiddishNewYork.htmhttp://yiddish-sources.com/http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.htmlhttp://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/yiddishhttp://www.jewish-languages.org/yiddish.htmlhttp://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/http://www.verterbukh.org/http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.htmlhttp://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/harkavy/index.utf8.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Harkavyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Harkavyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=dnMVAAAAYAAJhttp://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/http://www.yiddishdictionary.co.il/http://lib.cet.ac.il/pages/item.asp?item=12887http://jidysz.net/http://www.medienhilfe.org/page/index.php?rubrik=0029&id=0061http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1051135/jewish/Path-to-Extinction.htmhttp://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1051135/jewish/Path-to-Extinction.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Institute_for_Jewish_Researchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dovid_Katzhttp://www.yivoinstitute.org/downloads/Yiddish.pdfhttp://gilgulim.org/http://gilgulim.org/http://www.bernardlazare.org/http://mapage.noos.fr/bernardlazare/CahiersY.htmhttp://mapage.noos.fr/bernardlazare/CahiersY.htmhttp://www.yiddishweb.com/tamtam.htmhttp://yiddish-almanach.org/http://yiddish-almanach.org/index.php/the-yerusholaymer-almanakh/http://lebnsfragn.com/index.htmlhttp://lebnsfragn.com/about.htmlhttp://lebnsfragn.com/about.htmlhttp://docs.leagueforyiddish.org/undzer-perets-artikl.pdfhttp://www.leagueforyiddish.org/ishi.htmlhttp://www.leagueforyiddish.org/ishi.htmlhttp://www.yivoinstitute.org/publications/index.php?tid=123&aid=319http://www.yivoinstitute.org/publications/index.php?tid=123&aid=319http://www.yivo.org/aboutyivo/timeline3.htmhttp://www.yivo.org/aboutyivo/timeline3.htm


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Mumme Loohshen: An Anatomy of Yiddish, Joseph Witriol (http://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/)

Yiddish words in Dutch slang, with sound files (http://www.heardutchhere.net/duhebrew.html)

History of the Yiddish Language (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300108873)
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300108873http://www.heardutchhere.net/duhebrew.htmlhttp://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/


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