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21Yiddish — noun Etymology: Yiddish yidish, short for yidish daytsh, literally, Jewish German, from Middle High German jüdisch diutsch, from jüdisch Jewish (from Jude Jew) + diutsch German Date: 1875 a High German language written in Hebrew characters that… …
22Yiddish — 1. adjective /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/ a) Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language. b) Jewish. 2. noun /ˈjɪd.ɪʃ/ A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including… …
23Yiddish — Yid•dish [[t]ˈyɪd ɪʃ[/t]] n. 1) peo a language of central and E European Jews and their descendants elsewhere: based on Rhenish dialects of Middle High German with an admixture of vocabulary from Hebrew and Aramaic, the Slavic languages, and… …
24Yiddish — A Middle High German dialect, or number of dialects, spoken by Jews, containing a large number of Germanized Hebrew words, and using Hebrew characters for its literature …
25List of English words of Yiddish origin — For Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews (that are not necessarily English), see Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews. This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of… …
26Jews in the Middle Ages — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism …
27THE MIDDLE AGES — …
28Antisemitism in Europe (Middle Ages) — Accusations of deicide In the Middle Ages Antisemitism in Europe was religious. Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, have held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing Jesus, a… …
29West Germanic languages — Introduction group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English (English language),… …
30SHMERUK, CHONE — (1921–1997), Yiddish scholar. Born in Warsaw, Shmeruk studied history at the university there. During World War II he was in the U.S.S.R., where he met many Soviet Yiddish writers. He returned to Warsaw in 1946 and then immigrated, via Stuttgart …
