Explore: Contributions In Yiddish Language

 'standard language') and sometimes "YIVO Yiddish" (Yiddish: ייִוואָ־ייִדיש). YIVO preserves manuscripts, rare books, and diaries, and other Yiddish sources

Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The

unique use of the language in Eastern Europe, which was dominated by Yiddish speakers. Her early writings mostly involve the feminine Yiddish traditions, and

Conference for the Yiddish Language, held in 1908 in Czernovitz; his colleague and fellow Yiddish activist Nathan Birnbaum went in his place. Sholem Aleichem

Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging term for a gentile woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into

(Federation of Yiddish Dramatic Actors) and later Dramă şi Comedie, was an international and mostly Yiddish-speaking theatre, one of the most famous in the history

(Polish: Icchok Lejbusz Perec; Yiddish: יצחק־לייבוש פרץ), was a Polish Jewish writer and playwright writing in Yiddish. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M.

that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages. They traditionally speak Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety

essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated

Yahrzeit (Yiddish: יאָרצײַט, romanized: yortsayt, lit. 'year-time', plural יאָרצײַטן, yortsaytn) is the anniversary of a death in Judaism. It is traditionally