Interestingly, Hebrew and Yiddish are very dissimilar even though both languages use the Hebrew alphabets in their scripts. While Hebrew is a Semitic language (subgroup of Afro-Asiatic languages) like Arabic and Amharic, Yiddish is a German dialect which uses many Hebrew words but with a very ...
Yiddish definition: a Germanic language of Ashkenazi Jews, based on Middle High German dialects with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew, Aramaic, the Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian, written in Hebrew letters, and spoken mainly in ea
Mayn Yidishe Mame (“My Jewish Mother”), starring Seymour Rexite. The rioters included several members of the so-called “Army for the defense of the Hebrew Language” who broke into
“Hoyshayne” comes, of course, from the Hebrew “hoshanot,” which refers to the prayers accompanying the ceremonial processions around the synagogue (in the Temple, around the altar) on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot. Willow branches are beaten on the ground. The text of the...
Thus, an especially telling absence inYiddishkeitis so much as a single reference to the fact that more than half of the figures it profiles began as Hebrew writers (although Pekar does allude to the "slow start" of the great Hebrew journalist and Yiddish author Jacob Dinezon—by which I ...