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| | Yiddish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Yiddish was then regarded as the language of "Jewish proletariat"; at the same time, Hebrew was considered a "bourgeois" language and its use was generally discouraged. | | | The late 19th century and early 20th century are widely considered the Golden Age of secular Yiddish literature; this period also coincides with the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, and the revival of Hebrew literature. | | | While Hebrew always remained the official language of Jewish prayer, the Hasidim mixed considerable Yiddish into their Hebrew, and were also responsible for a significant secondary religious literature written in Yiddish. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language
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| | Judaism 101: Yiddish |
| | Yiddish is written with Hebrew letters, but the letters are used somewhat differently than in Hebrew. | | | Mame loshn was the language of women and children, to be contrasted with loshn koydesh, the holy tongue of Hebrew that was studied only by men. | | | From the earliest days of the language, there were a few siddurim (prayer books) for women written in Yiddish, but these were mostly just translations of existing Hebrew siddurim. |
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http://www.jewfaq.org/yiddish.htm
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| | Yiddish language on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Joys of Yiddish; Bubkes, gelt, meshugenehs: the heritage of one of the world's most expressive languages. | | | Yiddish Lives - A Language That Refuses to Die. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/y/yiddishl.asp
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| | The History and Development of Yiddish |
| | Yiddish was, and is, written using Hebrew characters. | | | Thus in a period of six years, between 1939 and 1945, Yiddish was dealt a near mortal blow. | | | The Haskalah, which began in the late eighteenth century and gathered steam throughout the nineteenth, promoted secular education and acculturation to the outside society. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/yiddish.html
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| | Jewish Language Research Website: Yiddish |
| | With the rare exceptions of young Yiddish activists, it is only in certain Orthodox and Hasidic communities that Yiddish remains the language of everyday discourse and is still learned by children. | | | Thus much of the Yiddish material that survives from that period was intended for women or men who lacked fluency in Hebrew. | | | The most comprehensive source for out-or-print Yiddish books is the National Yiddish Book Center. |
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http://www.jewish-languages.org/yiddish.html
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| | Yiddish language and dialects by ALS International |
| | It is a language, or dialect, that originally arose among a community of immigrants out of the necessity of communicating with a dominant host population but which over time became the principal or even the sole means of communication within the immigrant community itself. | | | It is a literary language that has been used for translation of and commentary on the Bible as well as for the recording of religious legal proceedings. | | | Yiddish is a written and well as a spoken language. |
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http://www.alsintl.com/languages/yiddish.htm
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| | The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול |
| | 1908 Czernowitz Conference on the Yiddish Language, with many interesting articles about the conference, documents from the conference, and many images of historical persons, places, and things. | | | In Yiddish and Hebrew, with Hebrew letters, Windows Hebrew character set. | | | Note: all interviews and songs here are in Yiddish unless otherwise noted. |
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http://www.yv.org
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| | Yiddish alphabet, pronunciation and language |
| | From the 13th century they started to use the Hebrew script to write their language, which linguists refer to as Judeo-German or occasionally Proto-Yiddish. | | | The earliest known fragment of Judeo-German is a rhyming couplet in a Hebrew prayer book dating from 1272 or 1273. | | | Yiddish is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yiddish.htm
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| | UYIP: Understanding Yiddish Information Processing |
| | (The rest of the characters needed for Yiddish are just the 22 Hebrew letters, and 5 final letter forms. | | | Note: make sure to choose a font encoded according to the Macintosh Hebrew character set in its entirety -- many/most Hebrew fonts for the Mac don't comply: in particular, they do not properly encode the double-yod with patah ("pasekh-tsvey-yudn") or rafe ("dekhele") characters. | | | sorttakones.txt, rules for sorting Yiddish according to the YIVO standard, as a plain text file (MacOS Hebrew Plain Text) |
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http://www.uyip.org
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| | The Language |
| | One of the Germanic languages, Yiddish is written in Hebrew characters (some of them used differently than for writing Hebrew). | | | Yiddish Language, chief vernacular of Ashkenazic Jews, who are native to, or who have antecedents in, eastern and central Europe. | | | Yiddish (meaning "Jewish") arose between the 9th and 12th centuries in southwestern Germany as an adaptation of Middle High German dialects to the special needs of Jews. |
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http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/language.html
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| | Yiddish Language and Literature |
| | Undergraduates with reading knowledge of Yiddish are welcome in graduate courses. | | | Since Yiddish Studies in NELC is considered a subsection of modern Jewish studies, students take half their required courses in related areas of Hebrew literature, modern Jewish thought, liturgy, history of Eastern Europe, etc. They are also encouraged to study Slavic and German languages and cultures. | | | Courses in Yiddish literature are offered regularly in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC houses Jewish Studies) and in Comparative Literature. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/yiddish.html
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| | The Yiddish Music Hall:Yiddish Resources |
| | The Program offers a minor in Jewish Studies and a variety of courses including the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Bible as Literature, Hebrew, Hebrew Scriptures, the Holocaust, the Jewish Heritage, | | | This program offers peerless instruction in Yiddish language and an in-depth exploration of the literature and culture of Eastern European Jews and their descendants throughout the world. | | | This is a place for Yiddish teachers of all levels to share resources and support each other: materials, ideas, songs, questions, answers. |
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http://www.savethemusic.com/yiddish/resources.html
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| | Yiddish Program at UPenn |
| | Yiddish Language Courses can fulfill your Language Requirement. | | | Yiddish Literature in Translation Courses are W.A.T.U. and can fulfill your Writing Requirement. | | | This course will survey modern Yiddish literature through readings of Yiddish prose and poetry from the end of the nineteenth century through the 1980s. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/german/yiddish
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| | Yamada Language Center: Yiddish WWW Guide |
| | This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. | | | Virtual Shtetl - Introduction to Yiddish language and culture set up as a tour of a Shtetl, a small town. | | | Chabad - student group at University of Texas, provides cultural and language resources. |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/yiddish.html
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| | Variety Stage: Yiddish-Language Playscripts |
| | The Yiddish theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City, and other urban centers, during the early twentieth century. | | | The 77 unpublished manuscripts presented here include light comedies and dramas, and have been selected from the 1,200 copyright-deposit plays housed in the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vsyid.html
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| | Yiddish Language |
| | Colleges and Universities that teach Yiddish (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, Univ. of Minnesota) | | | LCAAJ Collection of Spoken Yiddish (Columbia University Libraries) | | | Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish: a European Heritage (Nathan Weinstock) |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlj/yiddish.html
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| | Language Browser: Yiddish |
| | This page contains a list of interesting reports based around the 176 titles in the IMDb with Yiddish dialogue. | | | The form below allows you to search the database for titles with Yiddish dialogue only. | | | The A-Z index enables you to browse the titles alphabetically. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/Yiddish
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| | Yiddishkeit |
| | Enschultig meir - "Well excuuuuuuse ME!" (Can also bu used in a non-sarcastic manner depending on the tone of voice and situation.) | | | - Yiddish exclamation equivalent to the English "Oh!" |
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http://www.pass.to/glossary
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