: a High German language written in Hebrew characters that is spoken by Jews and descendants of Jews of central and eastern European origin
Yiddish
adjective
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Much of this history appears in YIVO’s Sidney Krum Jewish Music and Yiddish Theater Memorial Collections, which contain more than 15,000 recordings on CDs, LPs, 78s, piano rolls and tapes.
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James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
Almost all of it is in Yiddish or in various, like, ancient Hebrew-Aramaic kinds of languages.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
That meant direct competition with the New York Yiddish press and the influential weekly newspaper Freie Arbeiter Stimme, or The Free Voice of Labor.
—Geoffrey Baym, The Conversation, 5 May 2025
Throughout the thesaurus series there is a recurrence of words in Yiddish, a language Bochner—whose parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants—was raised hearing at home.
—Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
Almost all of it is in Yiddish or in various, like, ancient Hebrew-Aramaic kinds of languages.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
That meant direct competition with the New York Yiddish press and the influential weekly newspaper Freie Arbeiter Stimme, or The Free Voice of Labor.
—Geoffrey Baym, The Conversation, 5 May 2025
Throughout the thesaurus series there is a recurrence of words in Yiddish, a language Bochner—whose parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants—was raised hearing at home.
—Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
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Yiddish
noun
Yid·dish
ˈyid-ish 
: a language that began among the Jews of eastern Europe and is based on German and written in the Hebrew alphabet
Yiddish
adjective
Etymology
from Yiddish yidish, a shortened form of yidish daytsh, literally "Jewish German (language)," derived from early German jüdisch "Jewish" and diutsch "the German language"
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