What’s Yiddish?

Yiddish is a Germanic language spoken by Jews worldwide, developed in Central and Eastern Europe around the 10th century AD. It contains influences from many languages, including Hebrew, Romance, and Slavic. Yiddish literature flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries, and many Ashkenazi women were literate in Yiddish. The language suffered during the Holocaust, but […]

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