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This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the following words may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
Yiddish nouns are classified into one of three grammatical genders: masculine (זכר zokher ), feminine (נקבֿה nekeyve) and neuter (נײטראַל neytral ). To a large extent, the gender of a noun is unpredictable, though there are some regular patterns: nouns denoting specifically male humans and animals are usually masculine, and nouns ...
Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century due to Jewish language assimilation into mainstream culture ...
The song, "Tumbalalaika (The Riddle)" by Natalia Zukerman [4] is a poetic adaptation of this to English, with the chorus remaining in Yiddish. Benny Hill adapted the melody for one of his own compositions, Anna Marie, which he performed on his first special for Thames Television on November 19, 1969. [citation needed]
New Yiddish Library. Die New Yiddish Library ( Neue Jiddische Bibliothek) ist eine seit 2002 bei der Yale University Press erscheinende Buchreihe mit englischen Übersetzungen jiddischer Werke. Es handelt sich um ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Fund for the Translation of Jewish Literature (Fonds für die Übersetzung jüdischer Literatur) und des ...
Yiddishist movement. Yiddishism ( Yiddish: ײִדישיזם) is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century. [1] Some of the leading founders of this movement were Mendele Moykher-Sforim (1836–1917), [2] I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), and Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916). [3]