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Ukrainian Yiddish was the basis for standard theatre Yiddish, while Lithuanian Yiddish was the basis of standard literary and academic Yiddish. About three-quarters...

Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit...

trill [ʀ], by most of the speakers, like in most varieties of standard German or Yiddish. see Guttural R the pronunciation (by many speakers) of tzere...

symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...

Yiddishism (Yiddish: ײִדישיזם) is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century...

Jewish literary culture that had grown in the wake of the Jewish enlightenment (Haskalah). Israil Bercovici wrote that it is through Yiddish theatre...

Best Foreign Novel (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union) 2009 International Dublin Literary Award longlist (for The Yiddish Policemen's Union) 2009 Entertainment...

Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye der milkhiker [ˈtɛvjə ˌdɛr ˈmilxikər]) is the fictional narrator...

Di Yunge was the first major literary movement of Yiddish poetry in America. During the early 20th century, their work emphasized romanticism, individualism...

49% report Hebrew as their native language, Arabic 18%, Russian 15%, Yiddish 2%, French 2%, English 2%, Spanish 1.6%, and 10% other languages (including...

the regions Jews migrated to, and later Judeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Spanish, Yiddish, and other Jewish languages. Although Hebrew continued to be used for Jewish...

Akkadian language from c. 20th to 16th centuries BC, the imitated standard for later literary works) Middle Assyrian (the Akkadian language from c. 16th to...

notes that Scots preserves some Germanic words lost in standard English but preserved in Yiddish, for example "licht" for light or "lift" for air (German...

Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies. As Emmanuel Goldsmith writes, “This is a work of high scholarship and lucidity. It will become a standard in its field and...

Kol Mevasser (Yiddish: קול מבשר) was a Yiddish-language periodical that appeared from October 11, 1862 into 1872. It is considered by Sol Liptzin and others...

in Yiddish: Simcha Simchovich, The Song That Never Died The Betty and Morris Aaron-Henry Fuerstenberg Poetry Prize: Joseph Sherman, American Standard The...

"High German" (i.e. "Highland" German), out of which developed Standard German, Yiddish and Luxembourgish. It refers to the Central Uplands (Mittelgebirge)...

Communications and Electronics Association Signal, a New York Yiddish-language literary monthly published from 1933 to 1936 by the Communist Party USA...

⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin....