About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 303. Not illustrated. Chapters: Yiddish Language, Yinglish, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Goy, Fiddler on the Roof, New Square, New York, Yeshivish, Birobidzhan, Kiryas Joel, New York, Shtadlan, Yiddish Orthography, Jewish Humour, Yiddish Literature, Benno Straucher, Klezmer, List of English Words of Yiddish Origin, Sholem Aleichem, Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Yiddish Morphology, Yiddish Dialects, Friedman, Yivo, Yiddish Phonology, National Yiddish Book Center, Gluckel of Hameln, Celia Dropkin, Feed Me Bubbe, Upsherin, Center for Jewish History, the Workmen's Circle, Mordechai Scheiner, Weiss, Semyon Dimanstein, Shm-Reduplication, Yiddish Renaissance, Shira Gorshman, Eliakum Zunser, Stern, Yiddish Wikipedia, the Joys of Yiddish, Rebbetzin, Tkhine, Isaac Meir Weissenberg, Tseno Ureno, Valdgeym, Kfar Chabad, List of Jewish Autonomous Oblast Leaders, Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky, Born to Kvetch, Valery Solomonovich Gurevich, Klezkanada, Lawrence Bush, Zeev Latsky, Shmuel-Bukh, Birobidzhan Jewish National University, Klezmer-Loshn, List of Klezmer Bands, Outwitting History, Joseph Leftwich, Velvel, Yenta, Sabesdiker Losn, Yugntruf, Silberman, Nayfeld, Bira, Russia, Mlokhim-Bukh, Sidor Belarsky, Seliger. Excerpt: Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet. The language originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to Central and Eastern Europe and eventually to other continents. In the earliest surviving references to it, the language is called (loshn-ashkenaz = "language of Ashkenaz") and (taytsh, a variant of tiutsch, th...
