Yiddish
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1. Yiddish - Adjective
2. Yiddish - Proper noun
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
(informal) Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
Yiddish
A West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe.
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
The classic formula for success is Dress British, Think Yiddish.