How to Lose a Language in Three Generations
I usually don’t include personal references in my blog entries. I try to keep allusions to my own life or my experience both as speaker
October 9, 2015
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Oy Vey! Differentiating Hebrew and Yiddish
For those of us who aren’t too familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish, one language may be associated easily with the other when discussing either. However,
March 23, 2015
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More Specific? Impossible.
In this post from last year, we presented some words with oddly specific meanings. Frequently, this specificity makes it difficult to translate these words (or
February 6, 2014
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Yiddish, a Fusion of Languages
Yiddish is a Germanic language, and its main speakers are Ashkenazi Jews in the United States, Israel and in many countries in Eastern Europe, with
July 21, 2011
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