The First Words You Learn Selected Yiddish Words and Phrases – impress your friends and family A BI GEZUNT: So long as you’re healthy. Expression means, “Don’t worry so much about a problem, whatever it is.
The Alter Kocker trope as used in popular culture. A senior citizen with a Yiddish accent. In fiction, Yiddish accents are common for old characters, even if …
Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Tel Aviv say the DNA of Yiddish speakers may have originated from four ancient villages in north-eastern Turkey.
Background. Yiddish is a Germanic language, originally spoken by the Jews of Central and later Eastern Europe, written in the Hebrew alphabet, and containing a substantial substratum of words from Hebrew as well as numerous loans from Slavic languages.
Glossary of religious and ethical terms starting with the letter X,Y, or Z
Bubby’s Yiddish/Yinglish Glossary. Yiddish is a wonderful, rich, descriptive, often onomatopoetic language. It has words for nearly every personality type …
Glossary of Jewish Terminology. Following is a partial list of Hebrew, Yiddish and other Jewish terms used on this web site. Unless otherwise specified, the terms are …
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, lit. “Jewish”, pronounced ; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, lit. Judaeo-German) …
Yiddish is the language that was widely spoken by the Jews of Eastern Europe prior to World War II. Small pockets of Yiddish-speakers still survive, primarily in Jewish communities in the United States.
Aineklach: Grandren. Alav hasholom: May he or she rest in peace. Aliyah: To be called up to read a portion of Torah scroll in synagogue; the immigration of Jews to Israel.