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Yiddish is also widely spoken in the Jewish community in Antwerp, and in Haredi communities such as the ones in London, Manchester, and Montreal. Yiddish is also spoken in many Haredi communities throughout Israel. Among most Ashkenazi Haredim, Hebrew is generally reserved for prayer, while Yiddish is used for religious studies, as ...
Yiddish is the language of the Ashkenazim, central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world’s most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- In The Hasidic Jewish World
- In More Places Than You May Think
- Even on Tik Tok
The most obvious answer? Take a trip to any Hasidic (Orthodox) Jewish community in the world. From Williamsburg, New York, to Outremont, Montreal, or Mea She’arim, Jerusalem, you will find communities that fully function in Yiddish. This practice is rooted in the ideology of maintaining the customs and traditions of Jews in shtetl-times. “At one ti...
Even outside of the Hasidic Jewish world, Yiddish is the vernacular in homes across the world. Take, for example, our very own assistant director of education, Avi Posen, who grew up speaking Yiddish in Winnipeg, Canada. “Many people would probably identify with hearing, maybe their grandparents, speaking Yiddish so that their parents wouldn’t unde...
Perhaps the most surprising place a Yiddish-speaker might find community is somewhere that can be accessed from anywhere in the world: on Yiddish TikTok. For those that aren’t familiar with TikTok, the algorithm tends to place users on different ‘sides’ of the app (gardening Tik Tok or Jewish TikTok or Book-Tok, to name a few examples). Yiddish Tik...
Yiddish language is still spoken in the ultra-Orthodox world and among secular Jews in the main communities in the world. This development must be related to the growing ability of Jews in many parts of the world to integrate their European past with the modern European, American, or Israel culture. Thus the measurement of the present knowledge ...
What is Yiddish? Literally speaking, Yiddish means “Jewish.” Linguistically, it refers to the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews — Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, and their descendants. Though its basic vocabulary and grammar are derived from medieval West German, Yiddish integrates many languages including German, Hebrew, Aramaic ...
- Mordecai Walfish
Spoken in: Europe, Israel, North America, South America. First written: 11th century. Writing system: Hebrew alphabet, Latin alphabet. Status: official language in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the southeast of the Russian Federation.
Unlike most languages, which are spoken by the residents of a particular area or by members of a particular nationality, Yiddish - at the height of its usage - was spoken by millions of Jews of different nationalities all over the globe.
