Yiddish in a sentence

Israeli Revived Hebrew is not “rétsakh Yídish” (Hebrew for “the murder of Yiddish”) but rather “Yídish redt zikh” (Yiddish for “Yiddish speaks itself” beneath Israeli Hebrew).

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the oldest continually operating Yiddish theater company in the world, regularly revives forgotten Yiddish plays and musicals and proves their capacity to be exciting and interesting to modern audiences.

The term Yiddish is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with Jewish, to designate attributes of Ashkenazi culture (for example, Yiddish cooking and Yiddish music ).

As Meisarosh says: “For someone who doesn’t know Yiddish or even recognize the Hebrew letters, a Yiddish book is not going to capture their imagination.

Check out the links to our English and Yiddish articles, community calendar, the “Vertl” game, Yiddish lessons and cooking shows.

Despite years of searching for that Yiddish-text button, including contacting people who have collected old Jewish buttons for longer than I have been alive, the Yiddish button pictured on the handbill is nowhere to be found; it is entirely unknown.

Kadimah Yiddish Theatre circumvented that by adapting the original Yiddish text, culminating in a remarkable bilingual play, reprised for a return season after garnering widespread acclaim in 2022.

Born in 1859 in Russia, Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish author and playwright known in the United States as the “Yiddish Mark Twain,” according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Mr. Grey also just announced that he will be directing a Yiddish production of for the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene this summer.

Yashinsky began learning Yiddish by listening to his grandparents speaking the language and his parents using lots of Yiddish words.

An early Yiddish adaptation of Pinafore, called Der Shirtz (Yiddish for "apron") was written by Miriam Walowit in 1952 for a Brooklyn, New York Hadassah group, and they recorded 12 of the songs.

Another phenomenon that sets Hasidic Judaism apart from general Haredi Judaism is the strong emphasis placed on speaking Yiddish ; in (many) Hasidic households and communities, Yiddish is spoken exclusively.

By way of contrast, although Yiddish is classified by linguists as a language in the "Middle High German" group of languages, a Yiddish speaker would not consult a German dictionary to determine the word to use in such a case.

In the same period Zamenhof wrote some other works in Yiddish, including perhaps the first survey of Yiddish poetics (see p. 50 in the above-cited book).

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.

Born in Paris into a Christian Armenian family that prized culture, the young tenor learned basic Yiddish while growing up in the city’s Jewish quarter.

Carol Kane and Steven Keats, as an incompatible married couple — he a self-styled Yankee, she a pious product of the shtetl — speak Yiddish, though they didn’t know the language when they were cast.

Curiously, when the song was first recorded by P.J. Proby, he sang “Eye yi yi, Delilah,” which sounded suspiciously Yiddish, or at least Yinglish.

Founded in 1972 as a Yiddish broadsheet by the late veteran journalist Gershon Jacobson, today runs this website.

Funny songs, sad songs, songs about love, about the Holocaust, about hunger, about labor and resistance — the usual Yiddish fare.