see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit...
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The Yiddishers were a London street gang based in Whitechapel and were led by Alfred Solomon. One of their more famous members was future mobster Jack...
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Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
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Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community....
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version...
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Ashkenazi Jews (redirect from Yiddish people)
יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, romanized: Yehudei Ashkenaz, lit. 'Jews of Germania'; Yiddish: אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, romanized: Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic...
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phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th...
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language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which...
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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...
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symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...
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Anti-Yiddish sentiment is a negative attitude towards Yiddish. Opposition to Yiddish may be motivated by antisemitism. Jewish opposition to Yiddish has...
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Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
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The Yiddish King Lear (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער קעניג ליר Der Yidisher Kenig Lir, also known as The Jewish King Lear) was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and...
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The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish—i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become...
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Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish...
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Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...
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Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא; trans. Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which...
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Jewish-American organized crime (redirect from Yiddish Connection)
Mafia, the Kosher Mob, the Kosher Mafia, the Yiddish Connection, and Kosher Nostra or Undzer Shtik (Yiddish: אונדזער שטיק). The last two of these terms...
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Jewish Autonomous Oblast (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
oblast' (YeAO), IPA: [jɪˈvrʲejskəjə ɐftɐˈnomnəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ (je a ˈo)]; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, romanized: Yidishe avtonome gegnt, [ˈjɪdɪʃə...
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Klezmer (redirect from Yiddish music)
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements...
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A number of Yiddish symbols have emerged to represent the language and the Yiddishist movement over history. Lacking a central authority, however, they...
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The Yiddish Theatre District, also called the Jewish Rialto and the Yiddish Realto, was the center of New York City's Yiddish theatre scene in the early...
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The Yiddish Art Theatre was a Yiddish theatre company of the 20th century in New York City. The organization was founded in 1918 by actor and impresario...
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Yiddishist movement (redirect from Yiddishism)
Yiddishism (Yiddish: ײִדישיזם) is a cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century...
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Yiddish Summer Weimar is an annual summer institute and festival for Yiddish music, language and culture which takes place in Weimar, Germany. Starting...
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Jewish left (redirect from Yiddish socialism)
advocated by Simon Dubnow, (which celebrated the Jewish culture of the Yiddish-speaking masses).[citation needed] As Eastern European Jews migrated West...
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Kol Mevaser (redirect from Kol Mevaser (Yiddish broadcasting))
Kol Mevaser (Yiddish: קול מבשר, lit. 'voice of the herald') is a Yiddish broadcaster, which runs as a news hotline. It has options for news, weather forecasts...
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YIVO (redirect from Yiddish Scientific Institute)
YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ, pronounced [jɪˈvɔ]) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern...
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History of the Jews in Scotland (redirect from Scots-Yiddish)
definition of anti-Semitism. Scots-Yiddish is the name given to a Jewish hybrid vernacular between Scots and Yiddish, which had a brief currency in the...
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Hebrew alphabet (section Yiddish symbols)
writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern Hebrew, vowels are...
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