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see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish, historically referred to as Judeo-German or Jewish German, is a West Germanic...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternate present, based on...

Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...

the German rite synagogue ritual and until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script...

The Yiddishers were a London street gang based in Whitechapel led by Alfred Solomon. One of their more famous members was future mobster Jack Spot during...

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

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...

language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which...

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Ashkenazi Jews in the Yiddish language. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta...

phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th...

Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...

Anti-Yiddish sentiment is a negative attitude towards Yiddish. Opposition to Yiddish may be motivated by antisemitism. Jewish opposition to Yiddish has...

Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...

the other being Israel. It is one of the few places in the world where Yiddish is a recognized minority language. Prior to 1858, the area of what is today...

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II is an album by Six Degrees Records which consists of Yiddish songs written during World War II and the Holocaust...

Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא, romanized: Idish-Shprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry...

event is being considered for merging. › Yiddish Summer Weimar is an annual summer institute and festival for Yiddish music, language and culture which takes...

Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish...

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...

The Yiddish Wikipedia (Yiddish: יידיש-וויקיפעדיע) is the Yiddish-language version of Wikipedia. It was founded on 3 March 2004, and the first article was...

The Yiddish Book Center Yiddish: ייִדישער ביכער־צענטער, romanized: Yidisher Bikher-Tsenter (formerly the National Yiddish Book Center), located within...

The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a region of the U.S. state of New York that had summer resorts catering to American Jewish vacationers, especially...

of Israel. Several of the Yiddish symbols are drawn from Yiddish songs in the klezmer tradition. The Golden Peacock (Yiddish: די גאָלדענע פּאַווע) has...

Yiddish PEN Club (ייִדישער פּען קלוב yidisher pen klub) was founded in 1927, with two branches in Poland, namely, in the capital of Warsaw and in Wilno...

Yiddishism is a cultural and linguistic movement that advocates and promotes the use of Yiddish, the traditional vernacular of Ashkenazi Jews, which was...

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...

The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Alegemeyne Entsiklopedye is a 2022 history book by Barry Trachtenberg, published by Rutgers University...

The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער כאָר der yidisher filharmonisher khor) is a 35– to 40–voice New York City-based...

speech of New York City and elsewhere since the 1970s. It is borrowed from Yiddish and is ultimately Slavic in origin. The word may also refer to free promotional...

Moment (Yiddish: מאָמענט) is a Yiddish-language weekly printed magazine serving Orthodox Jewish communities, primarily in the New York metropolitan area...

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...

in the East Village of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the former Yiddish Theatre District, the theater was designed in the Moorish Revival style...

for Yiddish (in Yiddish: ייִדיש־ליגע) is a global, non-profit membership organization that promotes and encourages the active use of the Yiddish language...

YIVO (Yiddish: ייִוואָ, pronounced [jɪˈvɔ], short for ייִדישער װיסנשאַפֿטלעכער אינסטיטוט, yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, 'Jewish scientific institute')...

The Yiddish Art Theatre was a 20th-century Yiddish theater company based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1918 by actor and impresario...

The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language (CYCL) started in 1999 and serves as a multi-generational center for the teaching, promotion...

1970) was a Jewish author and educator. He published over thirty books, in Yiddish and English, notably his children's books The Wandering Beggar, The Wise...

Boris Sandler (Yiddish: באָריס סאַנדלער; born January 6, 1950) is a Yiddish-language author, journalist, playwright and lyricist and the former editor...

Der Yiddish Moment (Yiddish: דער ייִדיש מאָמענט) was an online Yiddish-language newspaper established in 2010, and now defunct. It was updated regularly...

from Yiddish (Yiddish: שמאָק, shmok), where it has similar pejorative meanings, but where its literal meaning is a vulgar term for a penis. The Yiddish word...

The Dybbuk: An Opera in Yiddish is an opera in three acts by American composer Solomon Epstein. The libretto was adapted by the composer from S. Ansky's...

Dovid Katz (Yiddish: הירשע־דוד כ״ץ, also הירשע־דוד קאַץ, Hirshe-Dovid Kats, [ˌhirʃɛ-ˈdɔvid ˈkɑt͡s], born 9 May 1956) is an American-born Vilnius-based...

2004), and the Universitetas Vilniaus (summer faculty in the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, 1999-2003 & 2014). Frakes's published research spans numerous...

and Jewish languages. Wexler is known in Yiddish linguistics mainly for his hypothesis that Eastern Yiddish is ultimately derived from Judaeo-Slavic,...

"Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שעהן [baɪ ˈmɪr ˈbɪstʊ ˈʃɛɪn], "To Me You're Beautiful") is a popular Yiddish song written by lyricist Jacob...

The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (Russian: Попугай, говорящий на идиш) is a 1990 Soviet adventure film directed by Efraim Sevela. Ramaz Ioseliani as Yankel...

Galach (Yiddish: גלח) or gal'ach is a Yiddish word meaning priest or, sometimes, any type of Christian minister. Its etymology is the Hebrew word galach...

the Hebrew script are used to write other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian. In modern Hebrew, vowels are...

between Western Yiddish and East European Yiddish. East European Yiddish is further divided into Central and Eastern Yiddish, with Eastern Yiddish subdivided...

Reb (Yiddish: רב, /ˈrɛb/) is a Yiddish or Hebrew honorific traditionally used for Orthodox Jewish men. It is not a rabbinic title. In writing it is abbreviated...

A Yiddish World Remembered is a 2002 Emmy-award-winning documentary by Andrew Goldberg that uses archival photographs, never-before-seen archival videos...

Klezmer (Yiddish: כּלי־זמר or ,קלעזמער, romanized: klezmer) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe....

Kol Mevaser (Yiddish: קול מבשר, lit. 'voice of the herald'), also known as Yiddish24, is a Yiddish broadcaster, accessed by telephone, which runs as a...

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer...

record in Yiddish under his birth name. In the early 1940s, he had a radio show on WHN radio in New York called Sam Medoff and His Yiddish Swing Orchestra;...

Night (Yiddish: און די װעלט האט געשװיגן, romanized: Un di velt hot geshvign, lit. 'And the World Remained Silent') is a 1956 memoir by Elie Wiesel based...

The Forward (Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס, romanized: Forṿerṭs), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is an American news outlet that focuses on issues...

The Yiddish King Lear (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער קעניג ליר, romanized: Der Yidisher Kenig Lir, also known as The Jewish King Lear) was an 1892 play by Jacob...

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated...

family in Yiddish language and cultural studies. Members include: Lifshe Schaechter-Widman (née Gottesman) (1893-1974) – folksinger, author of Yiddish autobiography...

Brighton Beach Memories — Neil Sedaka Sings Yiddish is a 2003 album by Neil Sedaka for Sameach Music. Sedaka went on to perform the songs with the Klezmatics...

This is a list of Yiddish Abbreviations. The entries are sorted according to the Hebrew alphabet. Prefixes indicating prepositions and articles (such...

(Yiddish: װײַבערטײַטש, lit. 'women's taytsh', i.e. 'women's Yiddish') or mashket (Yiddish: מאַשקעט), is a semi-cursive script typeface for the Yiddish...

Aaron Zeitlin. Originally a Yiddish language song "Dana Dana" (in Yiddish דאַנאַ דאַנאַ), also known as "Dos Kelbl" (in Yiddish דאָס קעלבל, "The Calf"),...

the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets. The letter is named "tsadek" in Yiddish, and Hebrew speakers often give it a similar name as well. This name for...

was a Yiddish theatrical actor. Born to parents who loved the stage, she spent her early years in a home that housed rehearsals of traveling Yiddish theater...

Mordechai Tsanin (Yiddish: מרדכי צאנין; Hebrew: מרדכי צאנין; 1 April 1906 – 4 February 2009) was a Yiddish language writer, journalist and lexicographer...

Заменгоф (Заменгоў), romanized: Liudvih Lazar Markavič Zamienhof (Zamienhoŭ) Yiddish: לײזער לוי זאַמענהאָף, romanized: Leyzer Leyvi Zamenhof Born into an Ashkenazi...

Adler (Yiddish: יעקבֿ פּאַװלאָװיטש אַדלער; born Yankev P. Adler; February 12, 1855 – March 31, 1926) was an American actor and star of Yiddish theater...

long-established European, North African, and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, with Yiddish being predominant.[citation needed] Historical records testify to the existence...

Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджан, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, IPA: [ˌbɪrɔbɪˈdʒan]), also spelt Birobijan (/ˌbɪrəbɪˈdʒɑːn/ BIRR-ə-bih-JAHN)...

dozen Yiddish theatre groups existed in New York City alone, in the Yiddish Theater District, performing original plays, musicals, and Yiddish translations...

In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (Yiddish: אין געװעב) is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the...

organization in the United States. The group ran Varhayt, a short-lived, first Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper in the United States, between February and...

New York City. Built in 1888, it served as a German language theatre, a Yiddish theatre, a burlesque house, a union meeting hall, a legitimate theatre...

Satmar (Yiddish: סאַטמאַר; Hebrew: סאטמר) is a group in Hasidic Judaism founded in 1905 by Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979) in the city of Szatmárnémeti in...

an ethnic slur directed at Jews. The etymological origin comes from the Yiddish word for circle, קײַקל (kaykl), itself a derivation of the Ancient Greek...

Připołdnica in Upper Sorbian, and Полознича (Poloznicha) in Komi, Chirtel Ma in Yiddish. The plural form of this word is poludnitsy (or poludnici). Poludnitsa...

(/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature...

"Mazel tov" (Yiddish: מזל טוב, romanized: mázl tov) or "mazal tov" (Hebrew: מזל טוב, romanized: mazál tov; lit. "good fortune") is a Jewish phrase used...

Yiddish chivalric romance written by Elia Levita between 1506 and 1508. Sol Liptzin described it as "the most outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish"...

Zelig (Yiddish: זעליג, Hebrew: זליג) is a masculine given name and surname, meaning "blessed" in Yiddish. Variants of the name include Zelik (Yiddish: זעליק)...

Yung-Vilne (Yiddish: יונג-ווילנע, Young Vilna) was a Yiddish literary collective active in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in the 1930s. The group's unofficial...

2001; John Leonard described it as Chabon's magnum opus. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in...

5–10 years old into the Cantonists. The Jews were forbidden from speaking Yiddish or Hebrew, and were forced to convert to Christianity, if they wanted to...

Evgeny Igorevich Kissin (Russian: Евгений Игоревич Кисин; Yiddish: יעווגעני קיסין, romanized: Yevgeni Kisin; born 10 October 1971) is a Russian-born concert...

be inserted as a set phrase in languages other than Hebrew, including Yiddish, for example, "Dos iz a kol-boynik, yemakh-shmoy!" ("He is a scoundrel...

Dave Cash (Yiddish: דייב קאש), born Ludwik Slomniker in 1910 in Lemberg, then Austria was a French Yiddish-language comedian, composer, musician and entertainer...

Chutzpah (/ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt-/; Yiddish: חוצפּה, romanized: khutspe) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpā...

definition of antisemitism. Scots-Yiddish is the name given to a Jewish hybrid vernacular between Scots and Yiddish, which had a brief currency in the...

The Vilna Troupe (Yiddish: Vilner trupe ווילנער טרופע; Lithuanian: Vilniaus trupė; Polish: Trupa Wileńska; Romanian: Trupa din Vilna), also known as Fareyn...

folkism, promoted by Simon Dubnow, which emphasized the cultural identity of Yiddish-speaking Jews.[citation needed] As Eastern European Jews migrated West...

The Yiddish Black Hand or the Jewish Black Hand Association was a criminal organization and extortion ring that operated on New York's Lower East Side...

Yahrzeit (pronounced [/ˈjɑrtsaɪt/]; Yiddish: יאָרצײַט, romanized: yortsayt, lit. 'year-time'; pl. יאָרצײַטן, yortsaytn; Hebrew: יארצייט) is the anniversary...

pejorative sense. The word, of Hebrew origin, was adopted into English from Yiddish. It carries a similar meaning in Modern Hebrew. The Biblical Hebrew word...

Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America is a book by historian Kenyon Zimmer that covers the anarchist ideology practiced...

Asch's Yiddish classic God of Vengeance. Rosen also played the role of Jean in Rhinoceros and the role of Vladimir in Waiting for Godot in Yiddish. In 2024...

newsletter for the Yiddish community in the United States. As an Anglo-Yiddish publication, the articles were mainly in English with some Yiddish and others in...

spin-off of the group is the Gilbert & Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company, which performs Yiddish translations of several of the Gilbert and Sullivan...

full overview.) The German word Jude ([ˈjuːdə]) is cognate with the usual Yiddish word for "Jew", Yid, but not directly; it is, on phonological grounds,...

Mensch or mentsh (Yiddish: מענטש) is a Yiddish word which literally translates to "person", and figuratively means "a person of integrity and honour"....

Litvaks (Yiddish: ליטװאַקעס) or Lita'im (Hebrew: לִיטָאִים) are Jews who historically resided in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania...

language. It was originally said in the context of the "social plight of Yiddish", and has been widely adopted as a shorthand for the importance of social...

Galician Jews or Galitzianers (Yiddish: גאַליציאַנער, romanized: Galitsianer) are members of the subgroup of Ashkenazi Jews originating and developed...

The Moscow State Jewish (Yiddish) Theatre (Russian: Московский Государственный Еврейский Театр; Yiddish: Moskver melukhnisher yidisher teater), also known...

Kiryas Joel (Yiddish: קרית יואל, romanized: Kiryas Yoyel, pronounced [ˈkɪrjəs ˈjɔɪ.əl] ; often locally abbreviated as KJ) is a village coterminous with...

Tyler Itsik Kliem (Yiddish: טײַלער קלײַם; born 2002) is an American poet-translator, print designer, and Yiddishist. Kliem was born in Camden, New Jersey...

(GRAHD-uh; חיים גראַדע; April 4, 1910 – June 26, 1982) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century. Grade was born in Vilna in the Russian...

there were already attempts to translate the Bible into Yiddish, including Hebrew-Yiddish biblical dictionaries. One of the most authoritative was the...

is an important number in Judaism, and its place in the name of God. In Yiddish, the letter yod is used for several orthographic purposes in native words:...

City. She works and performs in English and Yiddish speaking stages, and also interprets and performs Yiddish theatre and songs. Eleanor Reissa was born...

The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (1919–2003), a...

a Yiddish, English and Russian poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR with background in computer programming. He taught himself Yiddish at...

Bundism (Yiddish: בונדיזם, romanized: Bundizm) is a Jewish socialist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to promote working-class...

the use of other Jewish languages, particularly Yiddish. The linguistic dualism between Hebrew and Yiddish was similar to that of Hebrew and Aramaic in ancient...

Veker (or Der Veker, Yiddish דער וועקער, The Alarm Clock) is a Jewish journal in the Yiddish language featuring Jewish thought, commentary, essays, history...

Menke Katz (Yiddish: מעינקע קאַץ; Yiddish pronunciation: [mɛɪnkə]; April 12, 1906 – April 24, 1991) was an award-winning Yiddish-language and English-language...

Doikayt (Yiddish: דאָיִקייט, lit. 'Hereness') is a principle which states that Jews have a right to live and organize wherever they reside, and that they...

son after himself an unusual occurrence for Ashkenazim. A peculiarity of Yiddish names for Ashkenazi Jews was recording legal names in diminutive form....

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods is a 2005 book by Michael Wex devoted to Yiddish. In this book, "Wex is a rare combination...

performer, and piano accompanist in the world of Yiddish music. He also lectures on topics related to Yiddish music, language, and culture. He is a composer...

Hersh (Yiddish: הערש) is both a given name and surname, from the Yiddish language. People with the name include: Hersh Leib Sigheter (1829–1930), Hungarian...

Vera Rozanka (Yiddish: װעראַ ראָזאַנקאַ, 1893–1985), was a Ukrainian Yiddish Theatre actor and manager, soprano, writer, radio performer, and recording...

Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter (Yiddish: איציע מרדכי שעכטער; December 1, 1927 – February 15, 2007) was a leading Yiddish linguist, writer, and educator who spent...

Band Problems playing this file? See media help. "Raisins and Almonds" (Yiddish: ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, romanized: Rozhinkes mit Mandlen) is a traditional...

author, songwriter and actress in Yiddish theater and Yiddish vaudeville in the United States, Israel, and other Yiddish speaking communities in the diaspora...

national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For several centuries, Sweden was a larger...

Jiddischförbund (Yiddish Union of Sweden), earlier named Sällskapet för Jiddisch och Jiddischkultur i Sverige ('Society for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture in Sweden')...

especially in the late 19th century. Even so, Jewish culture, especially Yiddish, developed in the shtetls (small towns), intellectual culture developed...

"Fyvush" Finkel (Yiddish: פֿײַוויש פֿינקעל; October 9, 1922 – August 14, 2016) was an American actor and director known as a star of Yiddish theater and for...

Professor of Yiddish studies. Her research interests include Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; Jewish-Slavic cultural relations; Yiddish mass culture...

Shvartsburd; Yiddish: שלום שװאַרצבאָרד; French: Samuel 'Sholem' Schwarzbard; 18 August 1886 – 3 March 1938) was a Bessarabian-born Russian-French Yiddish poet...

Christa Patricia Whitney (Yiddish: קריסטאַ פּאַטרישאַ װיטני; born 1987) is an American oral historian, Yiddishist, and documentary filmmaker. Since 2010...

December 28, 1994) was a Jewish-American actor, writer, and director in Yiddish theater. He was born in Biłgoraj, Poland, into an Orthodox Jewish family...

Arbeter Froyen (Yiddish: אַרבעטער פֿרױען, lit. 'Working Women') is a Yiddish song by Jacob Glatstein, based on a 1891 poem by David Edelstadt, entitled...

known for his work in Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters in 1974. Buloff was born on...

Yiddish theaters of the prior half-century had disappeared. The sidewalk at the original location has plaques with the names of about fifty Yiddish theatre...

In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (/ˈdɪbək/; Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq, meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit...

Communist-oriented organization, formed for preserving and developing Yiddish culture in Yiddish and in English, through an art section, a writers' group, reading...

Public Library of Montreal. Wasserman taught Yiddish's lessons and introduced young Montreal Jews to the Yiddish Theater. The group of gifted youngsters whom...

element of Yiddish folklore in the 15th century at the latest. Here the red Jews, the royte yidn, were lost tribes and poised to protect the Yiddish Jews from...

The dialect was named after the Marollen, a neighborhood in Brussels. Yiddish is spoken by many among the 18,000 Jews living in Antwerp, where there...

era, Romania was the cradle of Yiddish theatre. The Russian-born Abraham Goldfaden started the first professional Yiddish theatre company in Iași in 1876...

Хунович Гендлер Arkadiĭ Khunovich Gendler, Yiddish: אַבֿרהם הענדלער Avram Hendler) was a Ukrainian Yiddish-language singer, composer, and folk song collector...

(Yiddish: דאַלוי פּאָליציי, lit. 'Down with [the] Police'), also known as In Ale Gasn (Yiddish: אין אַלע גאַסן, lit. 'In Every Street') is a Yiddish-language...

for having a section reserved for people who worked in New York City's Yiddish theater industry. While this type of organization is common for American...

written in Yiddish. Former Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr has praised "her superb theatrical ear and facility for transforming Yiddish work into...

the Yiddish Oy Chanukah (Yiddish: חנוכּה אױ חנוכּה Khanike Oy Khanike). The English words, while not a translation, are roughly based on the Yiddish. "Oy...

December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher. A member of Yiddish Theater's Adler dynasty, Adler began acting at a young age. She shifted...

Yankele, Yankl, Jankiel, Jankel is a Jewish given name. It is a Yiddish diminutive (Yiddish: יאַנקל) of Jacob. It is also used as a surname. Yankelevich...

Schnorrer (שנאָרער; also spelled shnorrer) is a Yiddish pejorative term for a beggar who, unlike ordinary beggars, presents himself as respectable and...

Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting...

Montreal Jews stated that Yiddish was their mother language. In the 1930s, there was a Yiddish language education system and a Yiddish newspaper in Montreal...

Igor S. Korntayer (Yiddish: ס. קאָרנטײער, born 1890s, murdered in Auschwitz c. 1942) was a Polish Jewish actor, lyricist, poet, and coupletist. He is...

and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised in the study of the Yiddish language. Born in Poltava, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine), his family...

tremendous growth in the recognition of Yiddish as an official Jewish European language, and there was even a Yiddish renaissance, particularly in Poland...

Chaim Zhitlowsky (Yiddish: חײם זשיטלאָװסקי; Russian: Ха́им О́сипович Житло́вский) (April 19, 1865 – May 6, 1943) was a Jewish socialist, philosopher,...

name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States. The 1964 musical...

in the Yiddish language. She was active in New York City for over 50 years in Yiddish theatre (in the Yiddish Theatre District), and Yiddish cinema....

published first in Yiddish. Heller was born in 1908 in Warsaw, and became a glove worker at the age of fourteen. Writing in Yiddish, he emerged early as...

Felzenbaum (Yiddish: מיכאל פֿעלזענבאַום, Russian: Михо́эл Фельзенба́ум; born 1951 in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, USSR) is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet...

The Yiddisher Boy is a 1909 film directed by Sigmund Lubin. The plot is about a boy called Moses who lives on the Lower East Side of New York City and...

of My Hasidic Roots, it is the first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish. The four-part miniseries was created and written by Anna Winger and Alexa...

Warsaw – 18 February 1989, Chicago) was a Polish-born actress of the Yiddish theater, who came to the United States in 1938, on the eve of the Second...

pronounced /ɔ/ in Ashkenazi Hebrew, and in Hebrew words that also occur in Yiddish. However, the kamatz katan vowel, which is visually indistinguishable from...

Gordin (Yiddish: יעקב מיכאַילאָװיטש גאָרדין; May 1, 1853 – June 11, 1909) was a Russian-American playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater...

Goldstein (/ˈɡoʊldstaɪn/; Yiddish: [ˈgɔld.ʃteɪ̯n] (Yiddish: גאָלדשטיין, Hebrew: גולדשטיין)) is a surname of German and Yiddish origin, that is widespread...

Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak (Yiddish: אֵלִיָּהוּ ״עליע״ ספּיוואַק, Russian: Эля Гершевич Спивак; 10 December 1890 – 4 April 1950) was a Soviet Jewish linguist...

German-language press that coexisted with Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish publishing traditions. In southern Ukraine, particularly in Odessa and...

1991, of which c. 40% in Ukraine. Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required), Eastern Yiddish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...

is a Yiddish-language poet and author. Gitl Schaechter was born in The Bronx New York. She grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and attended Yiddish schools...

teacher, and health science activist. She was the daughter of American Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt (née Waitzman) and the second of three wives of folk...

of the Yiddish movement in the 19th century, he advocated the idea of a secular Jewish culture based on Yiddish. His works include a Yiddish–Russian...

Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (September 13, 1927 – June 28, 2013) was a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University. Herzog received his Ph.D. from...

a week in Yiddish. In recent years, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast has grown interested in its Jewish roots. Students study Hebrew and Yiddish at a Jewish...

Oktyabr (Yiddish: אקטיאבער, 'October'), was a Yiddish language newspaper published in Minsk from 1917 to 1941. Oktyabr was launched on November 7, 1925...

The Workers Circle or Der Arbeter Ring (Yiddish: דער אַרבעטער־רינג), formerly The Workmen's Circle, is an American Jewish nonprofit organization that...

Pink Peacock (Yiddish: די ראָזעווע פּאַווע, Di Rozeve Pave) was a café and infoshop in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. Described by its founders as "anti-Zionist"...

performances of Yiddish theatre. After seeing a Yiddish theatre troupe perform in October 1911, for the next six months Kafka "immersed himself in Yiddish language...

technique that was innovative for its time. The first performance of a Yiddish play was held there in what is now the theatre's Ludger-Duvernay room in...

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky is a memoir published by Algonquin Books in 2004...

declared five official minority languages: Finnish, Sámi languages, Romani, Yiddish, and Meänkieli (Tornedal Finnish). The Swedish language dominates commercial...

Yeshaya Steiner (Yiddish: ישעיה שטיינער), known as Reb Shaya'la of Kerestir (Kerestirer) (Yiddish: ר' ישעיה'לה קערעסטירער‏) (1851 – 27 April 1925), was...

"How German is Yiddish?", remained unresolved, although a new campaign began in 2026, after the installation of commemorative Yiddish street signs in...

free dictionary. The word Yid (/ˈjiːd/; Yiddish: איד), also known as the Y-word, is a Jewish ethnonym of Yiddish origin. It is used as an autonym within...

have several origins. Brik may be a Jewish surname usually from the Yiddish word Yiddish: בריק brik - bridge. Belarusian or Ukrainian surname Brik may be...

the latter, including various special styles of dress and the use of the Yiddish language, are nowadays associated almost exclusively with Hasidism. Hasidic...

Worlds (Russian: Меж двух миров [Дибук], trans. Mezh dvukh mirov [Dibuk]; Yiddish: צווישן צוויי וועלטן - דער דִבּוּק, Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn – der Dibuk) is...

Jaffe (Yiddish: שלום יפה) was born to Ukrainian Jewish parents Heida (Ada; Yiddish: אידאַ יאַפֿע; Ukrainian: Іда Яффе) and Barnett Jaffe (Yiddish: באַרנעט...

Reisen (Yiddish: זלמן רײזען; 6 October 1887 – 1941), sometimes spelled Zalman Reyzen, was a lexicographer and literary historian of Yiddish literature...

The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, a part of Bar-Ilan University, is dedicated to the academic study of Yiddish language and culture. The center's...

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

"I will not play any record with Yiddish in it. Yiddish is the language of the ghetto." "My friend," I said, "Yiddish is the language of our forefathers...

Rugelach (/ˈruːɡələx/ ROO-gəl-əkh; Polish: rogaliki, Yiddish: ראגעלעך, or Yiddish: רוגעלעך, romanized: rugelekh and Hebrew: רוגלך rōgalaḵ) is a filled...

Research. This 2021 graphic non-fiction work is based on six of the rescued Yiddish entries for a 1930's contest offered by the Vilna Ghetto's Paper Brigade...

Israel Joshua Singer (Yiddish: ישראל יהושע זינגער; November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Lubelskie, Congress Poland — February 10, 1944, Manhattan, New York) was...

unhealthy and compliant. The term is a compound word joining goy, a Hebrew and Yiddish word for a non-Jew or gentile, and slop, meaning food waste or refuse of...

led to mass emigration. In the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920), Yiddish became a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time...

Youth for Yiddish (יוגנטרוף — יוגנט פֿאַר ייִדיש) is an organization of young Yiddish-speaking adults that is dedicated to the spread of the Yiddish language...

many colloquialisms and expressions were directly borrowed from German or Yiddish and subsequently adopted into the vernacular of Polish in everyday use...

Baruch Glasman (Yiddish: ברוך גלאזמאן, Russian: Барух Глазман; 1 December 1893 – 1 June 1945) was a Yiddish novelist, short story writer, and essayist...

first great era of Yiddish theater. As a star Yiddish dramatic performer in New York City, he was the first leading man in Yiddish theater to dispense...

"Leonard Nimoy 15Oct2013 Yiddish Book Center". Yiddish Book Center. 6:42–7:33. Retrieved September 24, 2015. (In Yiddish and English:) And my grandmother...

Kol Mevasser (Yiddish: קול מבשר) was a Yiddish-language periodical that appeared from October 11, 1862 into 1872. It served as a supplement to the Hebrew...

derived from the Hebrew verb נָתָן meaning gave (standard Hebrew Natan, Yiddish Nussen/Nosson, Tiberian Hebrew Nāṯān). Nathan Adams (born 1991), English...

Hilda, 'Grey Battle-maid'. It is also (Yiddish: זעלדאַ or זעלדע, Hebrew: זלדה) the feminine form of the Yiddish name Zelig, (זעליג) meaning 'blessed',...

My Yiddishe Momme (Yiddish: א יידישע מאמע) is a song written by Jack Yellen (words and music) and Lew Pollack (music), first recorded by Willie Howard...

lenition) in the old-style Irish alphabet. In standard Yiddish orthography, the rafe (Yiddish: רפֿה, romanized: rofe; colloquially also דעכעלע dekhele...

Joseph Cherniavsky (Yiddish: יוסף טשערניאַװסקי, c. 1890-1959) was a Jewish American cellist, theatre and film composer, orchestra director, and recording...

(Schmulewitz) Hoffman (born 1936) was a Yiddish language playwright and lecturer. Hoffman was born in Łódź, Poland to a Yiddish-speaking family. While she was...

Oy vey (Yiddish: אױ װײ) is a Yiddish phrase expressing dismay or exasperation. Also spelled oy vay, oy veh, or oi vey, and often abbreviated to oy, the...

Jane Rose (Yiddish: דזשעין ראוז; née Tsukerman) (c. 1880–July 14, 1927) was a Yiddish dramatist and theater activist. She was born to a well-off family...

written in the Hebrew language, although some Israeli authors write in Yiddish, English, Arabic and Russian. The foundations of modern Israel writing...

Zinoviy Borukhovich Shul'man Yiddish: זינאָווי שולמאַן 1904–1977), was a Soviet Jewish singer (tenor) known for singing Yiddish art songs. He was the son...

German, although this is disputed. Judeo-French left lexical traces in Yiddish, but its role in the formation of that language is debated. Judeo-French...

standard Yiddish. An aleph with the diacritic komets, אָ, represents the vowel [ɔ] in standard Yiddish. Loanwords from Hebrew or Aramaic in Yiddish are spelled...

178,081, or 56.82% of the population), German (1,333,013, or 14.63%), Yiddish (912,692, or 10.01%), Italian (745,669, or 8.18%), and Polish (283,733...

Selig (Yiddish: סעליג) is a Yiddish- and German-language masculine given name and surname, meaning "blessed." It is a variant of the Yiddish given name...

schwarz) is a racial slur for black people. Schvartze is derived from the Yiddish word שוואַרץ, shvarts, which means "black", cognate to the German schwarz...

Starer (Hebrew: שטרר; Yiddish: שטארער) is a Jewish surname. Robert Starer (1924–2001), American composer. Jacqueline Starer (born 1940), French Author...

Poets who wrote, or write, much or all of their poetry in the Yiddish language include: Moyshe Altman Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim Israil Bercovici Olexander...

Aliza Greenblatt (Yiddish: עליזה גרינבלאַט; née Waitzman; September 8, 1888 – September 21, 1975) was an American Yiddish poet. Many of her poems, which...

(November 18, 1893 – March 14, 1958) was a Polish-born Jewish American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator. Minkoff was born on November 18,...

The following is a list of Yiddish-language newspapers and periodicals. Birobidzhaner Shtern Der Blatt Der Yid Di Tzeitung New York Yugntruf Maalos Kindline...

Israeli Haredi Yiddish, in particular, Hasidic Yiddish (Yiddish: חסידישער ייִדיש, romanized: Hasidisher yidish), coming from central Yiddish dialects spoken...

Dorem Amerike (Yiddish: דרום אַמעריקע, 'South America') was a Yiddish-language literary monthly magazine published in Argentina in 1926-1927. Politically...

A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, (/ˈdreɪdəl/ DRAY-dəl; Yiddish: דרײדל, romanized: dreydl, plural: dreydlech; Hebrew: סביבון, romanized: sevivon) is...

gathered songs in Yiddish, a language put on the Red List of Threatened Languages by UNESCO. Before World War II, the number of native Yiddish speakers was...

Florence Weiss (Yiddish: פֿלאָרענס װײס, c. 1900–1974) was a Russian-born American Yiddish theatre, Vaudeville and film actor, recording artist, and soprano...

variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Hunsrik, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles...

13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see...

to modernize the Jewish community by establishing 1,100 Yiddish-language schools, 40 Yiddish-language daily newspapers and by settling Jews on farms in...

Shtif (Yiddish: נחום שטיף‎; 1879, Rovno – 1933, Kiev), was a Jewish linguist, literary historian, publisher, translator, and philologist of the Yiddish language...

Hebrew and sought to remove Yiddish, these subsequent developments advocated Yiddish Renaissance among Maskilim. Writers of Yiddish literature variously satirised...

Elimelech is a Yiddish song published in 1927 by the communist satirist Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole. (first verse) Yiddish lyrics:...

Gordin (Hebrew: אבא גורדין; 1887–1964) was a Belarusian anarchist and Yiddish writer and poet. Abba Gordin was born in 1887 in Smorgon (now in Belarus)...

Shiksa (Yiddish: שיקסע, romanized: shikse) is an often disparaging term for a gentile woman or girl. The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into...

(Yiddish: אבּ שװארץ or אייב שווארץ) (1881 near Bucharest, Romania – 1963 in Bronx, New York City) was an American klezmer violinist, composer, Yiddish...

Bundist ideology differed significantly from Zionist beliefs regarding the Yiddish language and the immigration of Jews. In the mid-2000s, The World Coordinating...

brother was the poet and story-writer Mordecai Husid. She was educated at a Yiddish school, and later moved to Vienna, where she studied at a Hebrew pedagogical...

Di goldene keyt ("The Golden Chain") was the leading Yiddish-language literary journal of the post-World War II era. Founded in 1949 by Avrom Sutzkever...

was inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (Yiddish: װען איך בין ראָטשילד; lit. “If I were a Rothschild”),...

Isidore Lillian (Yiddish: איזידאָר ליליען Izidor Lilien, c. 1882–1960) was an actor, songwriter, playwright, and composer who was a leading figure in...

Joel Landau (Yiddish: יואל לאנדא; born August 22, 1980) is an American entrepreneur and health care industry executive. He is the founder of the Allure...

Glatstein (Yiddish: יעקב גלאטשטיין, 20 August 1896 – 19 November 1971) was a Polish-born American poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language...

propaganda works for the Soviet Union. Lissitzky began his career illustrating Yiddish children's books in an effort to promote Jewish culture. He started teaching...

Zalmen Mlotek (Yiddish: זלמן נתן מלאָטעק; born June 15, 1951, in the Bronx, New York) is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist...

was a Yiddish singer, musician and activist who was integral to the contemporary revival of klezmer music. In addition to her work as a Yiddish singer...

(Never Say; Yiddish: זאָג ניט קיין מאָל, [zɔg nit kɛjn mɔl]) sometimes "Zog nit keynmol" or "Partizaner lid" [Partisan Song]) is a Yiddish song considered...

Itche Goldberg (Yiddish: איטשע גאָלדבערג; March 22, 1904 – December 27, 2006) was a Polish-born Yiddish language writer of children's books, poet, librettist...

Sheinbaum (Yiddish: שיינבוים, romanized: sheynboym, IPA: [ˈʃɛɪnbɔɪm], lit. 'beautiful tree'; cf. German Schönbaum and Schoenbaum) is a Yiddish surname....

Lou Menchell was an American comedian and emcee who used Yiddish humor in his impersonations, songs, and standup. Menchell began most of his comedic standup...

Grossinger Hotel in Liberty, New York, in the so-called "Borscht Belt". Cohen's Yiddish humor was well received by the predominantly Jewish audiences in this area...

November 4, 2013) was a musicologist, specializing in Yiddish folklore. Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, once called Mlotek and...

in Yiddish or Ladino. Diminutive forms include Izzy (English), Israelito (Spanish), Isser (Yiddish), Srul (Yiddish), Sruli (Yiddish), Srulik (Yiddish) and...

the Yiddish-speaking community from 1904 until the mid-1950s. Many of these migrants, predominantly workers, embraced Yiddishism, viewing Yiddish as the...

southwestern parts of Norway. It is also frequent in Flanders, eastern Austria, Yiddish (and hence Ashkenazi Hebrew), Luxembourgish, and among all French and some...

was a Yiddish-American cartoonist, puppeterist, satirist, calligrapher, socialist political activist and co-founder of Modicut, the first Yiddish-language...

Kathryn Ann Hellerstein (Yiddish: קאַטרין העלערשטײן; born 1952) is an American academic and scholar of Yiddish-language poetry, translation, and Jewish...

hoch, Yiddish: הויך‎, romanized: hoykh ("high") MHG schœne → NHG schön, Yiddish: שיין‎, romanized: sheyn ("nice") MHG snîden → NHG schneiden, Yiddish: שנײַדן...

Benzion Hoffman (Yiddish: בּנציון האָפֿמאַן, romanized: Bentsiyen Hofman; 1 May 1874 – 14 October 1954), best known by the pen name Zivion (צבֿיון, Tsivyen)...

better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir (Yiddish: משה נאַדיר; also transliterated "Moishe") was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist. Rayz was...

(English: /ˈʃtɛtəl/ SHTET-əl; Yiddish: שטעטל, romanized: shtetl, pronounced [ʃtɛtl̩]; pl. שטעטעלעך shtetelekh) is a Yiddish term for small towns with substantial...

activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally...

Itzik Manger (Yiddish: איציק מאַנגער, 30 May 1901 – 21 February 1969) was a prominent Yiddish poet and playwright, a self-proclaimed folk bard, visionary...

14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau). Before deportation...

Joseph Feldman (Yiddish: יוסף פֿעלדמאַן, 1886–1967), also known as Joe Feldman, was a Yiddish language tenor, Yiddish Theatre actor, and composer who...

Der Keneder Adler (Yiddish: דער קענעדער אדלער, lit. 'The Canadian Eagle') was Canada's leading Yiddish newspaper from 1907 until 1977. Founded in Montreal...

The Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (Yiddish: אלגעמיינע ענציקלאפעדיע, lit. 'General Encyclopedia') is a Yiddish-language encyclopedia published in twelve volumes...

Buckwheat groats (gretshkes/greytshkelach or retshkes/reytshkelach in Yiddish) are prepared separately from, and then fried together with, lokshen and...

A rebbe (Yiddish: רבי, romanized: rebe) or admor (Hebrew: אדמו״ר) is the spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities[clarification...

Sutzkever (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם סוצקעווער, romanized: Avrom Sutskever; Hebrew: אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The...

Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך, romanized: Uriel Vaynraykh, IPA: [urˈiːəl ˈvajnrajχ]; May 23, 1926 – March 30, 1967) was a Polish and American...

Chagall (Russian: Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал, romanized: Bella Rozenfeld-Shagal; Yiddish: בעלאַ ראָזענפעלד; 14 December 1889 – 2 September 1944) was a Russian Jewish...

who had anglicized his name, and his wife. Phillips grew up speaking Yiddish and later learned English. At the age of 20, the ambitious Phillips emigrated...

analysis of primary and secondary sources in Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish, and Hungarian. In the context of the Gaza war, Segal has described Israel's...

Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg, Yiddish: מיענע שענבערג מארקס; 9 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers...

The Palestine Communist Party (Yiddish: פאלעסטינישע קומוניסטישע פארטיי, Palestinische Komunistische Partei, abbreviated PKP; Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني...

Clara Gold (Yiddish: קלאַראַ גאָלד, 1888–1946) was an American Yiddish theatre actor and recording artist. She recorded more than twenty Yiddish theatre music...

dictionary. Yenta or Yente (Yiddish: יענטע) is a Yiddish woman's given name. It is a variant form of the name Yentl (Yiddish: יענטל), which is thought to...

abbreviation for "Jewish Section" (Russian: Еврейская секция). [jɪfˈsʲektsɨjə]; Yiddish: יעווסעקציע) was the ethnically Jewish section of the Communist Party of...

Grinberg) was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Widely regarded among the greatest poets in the country's history...

(Ukrainian: Зіньків [ˈz⁽ʲ⁾nʲkiu̯]; Russian: Зиньков, romanized: Zin'kov; Yiddish: זינקיוו, romanized: Zinkiv) is a village in western Ukraine, located upon...

several internationally acclaimed Yiddish poets, (c) an (ongoing) project to write an etymological dictionary of Yiddish, and (d) proprietor of the second...

Moishe Finkel (Yiddish: משה פינקעל; c. 1852 – June 7, 1904), also known as Morris Finkel and Maurice Finkel, was a Yiddish theater actor, theatre director...

Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. Specializing in the role of language, especially Yiddish, in expressing personal identity...

The Grand Theatre was a theatre in the Yiddish Theatre District in Manhattan in New York City built for Yiddish productions, the first of its kind. The...

Der Nister (Yiddish: דער נסתּר ֹor דער ניסטער, "the Hidden One"; 1 November 1884 – 4 June 1950 in the Abez camp of Gulag) was the pseudonym of Pinchus...

2011) was an American film and stage actress who began her career in Yiddish theater and films. She was sometimes credited as Helen Beverly. Beverley...

(Yiddish: יוסף בורג or, in Soviet publications, יױסעף בורג Yoysef Burg; May 30, 1912 – August 10, 2009) was an award-winning Jewish Soviet Yiddish writer...

Peretz Davidovich Markish (Yiddish: פּרץ מאַרקיש) (Russian: Пе́рец Дави́дович Ма́ркиш) (7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1895 – 12 August 1952) was a Russian...

Ben Bonus (Yiddish: בען באָנוס, November 9, 1920 – April 6, 1984) was a prominent American Yiddish theatre and Broadway actor and Yiddish language singer...

Vilner/Wilner is a German and Jewish surname meaning (in Yiddish) "from Wilna/Vilne" (Hebrew: וילנר). Alternative form: Vilensky/Wilenski. Notable people...

also known by his pen name A. Vayter, was a Jewish playwright, essayist, Yiddish Culture activist, and labor leader. Until about 1906, he was a leader in...

one of his comedic songs, "Isch ga-bibble." The song derived from a mock-Yiddish expression, "Ische ga bibble?", which was purported to mean "I should worry...

Jacob Kolloman Freud (Yiddish: יעקב קאלמאן פרויד; 18 December 1815 – 23 October 1896) was the father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis....

(born March 24, 1908 – July 10, 1993) was a Yiddish poet and fabulist. He was invited to join the Yiddish literary group Yung-Vilne in 1934, becoming...

Rev Henry Einspruch (Yiddish: חיים אײנשפּרוך; 1892–1977) was a Polish-born American Lutheran pastor and translator of Christian literature. A Jewish convert...

English, Yiddish: טרײף), also spelled treyf (Yiddish: טריף). In case of objects the opposite of kosher is pasúl (/pəˈsul/ in English, Yiddish: פָּסוּל)...

Diminutives of Chaim are: חיימי Chayimee (from Yiddish or Spanish Jaime) חיק׳ל/חיימקה (Chaikel/Chayimke from Yiddish) Hindi: जेम्स (Jēmsa) Hungarian: Jakab,...

Rakhel Feygenberg (Yiddish: רחל פײגענבערג; 1885–1972), often known by her Hebrew pen name Rakhel Imri (רחל אמרי), was a Russian-born Israeli writer, playwright...

contexts via Yiddish, and may be, therefore, simply regarded as Yiddish. (This problem is illustrated in the list of English words of Yiddish origin.)[citation...

Russian: Сара Левицка Адлер; Yiddish: שרה לעוויטסק אַדלער; May 26, 1858 – April 28, 1953) was a Russian actress in Yiddish theater who made her career...

djudezmo. The gestation and development of Ladino can be compared to that of Yiddish in Germany, among Ashkenazi Jews of central and eastern European origin...

production of the film, Kane had to work with a dialect coach to learn Yiddish, a language she did not previously speak. Despite this additional effort...

Yiddish tattoos on their ribs. His says "family", which is written the same way in both Hebrew and Yiddish, while hers says "family first" in Yiddish...

(1836–1917), Jewish author, founder of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916), Yiddish author and playwright in the Russian Empire...

Siberian Tatar, 0.9% Ukrainian, 0.4% Polish, 0.3% Bashkir, 0.2% Yiddish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Komi-Zyrian, 0.1% German, 0.1% Romani and 0.1% Kazakh as their...

known under the stage names Merna and Claire Barry, were popular American Yiddish and jazz entertainers from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Minnie and Clara...

American author who published about 50 fiction and nonfiction works in Yiddish between 1904 and 1915. Blinken was born in 1879 in Pereiaslav, Russian...

Jewry at the time, were decidedly unacculturated: In 1897, 97% declared Yiddish their mother tongue and only 26% could read the Russian alphabet. Hebrew...

languages include the Ladino ג׳ודיו Djudio (plural ג׳ודיוס, Djudios) and the Yiddish ייִד Yid (plural ייִדן Yidn). The Book of Genesis 29:35 and 49:8 connect...

was a Yiddish author and editor from Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire). There are various spellings of Dinezon's name in both Yiddish and English...

pen name Melech Ravitch (Yiddish: מלך ראַוויטש), was a Yiddish poet and essayist. Ravitch was one of the world's leading Yiddish literary figures both before...

Shayna (Yiddish: שיינא;שיינה; Polish: Szejna) or Shaina is a feminine name of Yiddish origin, meaning "beautiful" or "lovely" (Yiddish: שיין (sheyn), cognate...

Ashkenazim, some are Yiddish. For Shabbat, there are several ways to greet people in a variety of languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish...

Tetelbaum is a surname and a modification of Yiddish Yiddish Teytlboym, "Date palm".[citation needed] Notable people with the surname include: Ievgeniia...

Schlemiel (Yiddish: שלימיל, romanized: shlimil; sometimes spelled shlemiel) is a Yiddish term meaning "inept/incompetent person" or "fool". It is a common...

Irving Jacobson (June 18, 1898 – December 17, 1978) was a Yiddish theater star, American stage and film actor. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to actors Joseph...

c. 1790 in Poland) was the first translator of the New Testament into Yiddish, published by the London Jews Society in 1821. Solomon was a Polish-Jewish...

known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was...

culture and its own Yiddish language, descended from early Middle High German. That hypothesis is often backed by the large number of Yiddish loanwords of Slavic...

Moshe Dluznowsky (Dunow) (Polish: Mojżesz "Moszek" Dłużnowski, Yiddish: משה דלושנאָװסקי, 1903–1977), was a Polish-born journalist, publicist, writer,...

Esther Frumkin (Yiddish: עסטער פרומקין; 1880 – 8 June 1943), born Malkhe Khaye Lifshitz and also known as Mariya Yakovlevna Frumkina, was a Belarusian...

Israel Isidor Elyashev (Yiddish: ישראל איסידאָר עליאַשעװ, 1873–1924) was a Jewish neurologist and the first Yiddish literary critic. He introduced the...

Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך, Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969)...

March 2025). "Parisian theater stages Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Golem' in Yiddish and French". The Forward. Retrieved 21 October 2025. Shackleton, Liz (1...

tefillot [tfiˈlot]; Yiddish: תּפֿלה, romanized: tfile [ˈtfɪlə], plural תּפֿלות tfilles [ˈtfɪləs]; Yinglish: davening /ˈdɑːvənɪŋ/ from Yiddish דאַוון davn 'pray')...

bellybutton" in Yiddish). These references to the Nazi leadership and Hitler speaking Yiddish were particularly ironic inside jokes for the Yiddish-speaking...

cartoonist and caricaturist for the New York-based Yiddish publications including Kibitzer (Yiddish for a person who offers unsolicited views, advice,...

David G. Roskies (Yiddish: דוד ראָסקעס; born 1948) is a Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and author in the field of Yiddish literature and...

items of modest value, often sold in street markets and charity shops. In Yiddish, such items are known as tchotchkes. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr...

as pe'ot (Hebrew: פֵּאוֹת, romanized: pēʾōt, lit. 'corners') or payes (Yiddish: פּאות, romanized: pejəs), are sidelocks or sideburns. Pe'ot are worn by...

room. He named it the Convention Hall Theater. It operated primarily as a Yiddish theater from 1903 to 1912, serving the largely Jewish immigrant population...

1987 in Haifa, Israel, as the eldest of 14 children. He grew up in the Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Jewish Satmar community of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. At...

Hirsch (Harry) Wolofsky (1878–1949), was a Canadian Yiddish author, publisher/editor and business owner. Wolofsky was born in Szydłowiec, Poland, into...

Rukhl Schaechter (born 1957) is the editor of the Yiddish Forverts, one of the two remaining Yiddish newspapers outside the Hasidic Jewish world (the other...

A cheder (Hebrew: חדר, lit. 'room'; Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈχɛɪdər]) is a traditional primary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language...

Ida Maze (Yiddish: אײַדע מאַזע, Aydeh Mazeh) (9 July 1893 – 13 June 1962), also known as Ida Maza and Ida Massey, was a Canadian Yiddish-language poet...

David Pinski (Yiddish: דוד פּינסקי; April 5, 1872 – August 11, 1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when...

a single vov ו represents the vowel [u] in Northern Yiddish (Litvish) or [i] in Southern Yiddish (Poylish and Galitzish).[citation needed] The digraph...

Boris Thomashefsky (Yiddish: באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי; Ukrainian: Борис Томашевський; May 29, 1866 – July 9, 1939), born Baruch-Aaron Thomashefsky, was a Ukrainian–American...

Kogel mogel (Yiddish: גאָגל־מאָגל, romanized: gogl-mogl; Polish: kogel-mogel [ˈkɔɡɛl ˈmɔɡɛl] ; Norwegian: eggedosis; German: Zuckerei [ˈtsʊkɐˌʔaɪ] ) is...

Joseph Seiden (Yiddish: יוסף זײדען, 1892–1974) was a pioneering American Yiddish language film producer of the early twentieth century. He released a...

Pierre Pinchik (Yiddish: פינחס פינטשיק Pinkhas Pintshik, Russian: Пьер Пинчик P'yer Pinchik; 1893–1971), born Pinchas Segal, was a famous Hazzan from...

nickname for Kalman is in Yiddish Kalma or Kalme. The Yiddish and Hungarian names are a convergence with separate origins (the Yiddish name first appearing...

the Yiddish language. In Alexander Harkavy's Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary of 1898 and at least one later edition, intended for the use of Yiddish-speakers...

Canadian historian. He is specialist of the Jewish community of Montreal, of Yiddish literature and of the poetic work of Jacob-Isaac Segal. He also published...

directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the 1966 novel Enemies, A Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The film stars...

"To the Bund", is a Yiddish poem written by S. Ansky in 1901 and published in Der Arbeyter a year later. It became a popular Yiddish song when music was...

Moshe Shalit (Yiddish: משה שאליט; 22 December 1885, Vilnius - 19 July 1941, Vilnius) was a researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist...

balalaika" or "Tum balalayke" (Yiddish: טום־באַלאַלײַקע) is an American Ashkenazi Jewish popular love song in the Yiddish language. The title refers to...

were to write and direct a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union for Columbia Pictures. Scott Rudin, who collaborated...

A bagel (Yiddish: בײגל, romanized: beygl; Polish: bajgiel [ˈbajɡʲɛl] ; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland...

the Labor Zionist movement. He was also a pioneer in the study of the Yiddish language. His worldview was highly influenced by Alexander Bogdanov, Ernst...

Falkovich or Falkovitsh (Yiddish: פאַלקאָװיטש) is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Anatoliy Falkovich (1923–1994), Soviet actor Elye...

Yiddish became one of the four official languages of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Minsk emerged as a global hub for secular Yiddish culture...

Boymvol, sometimes spelled Baumwoll (Russian: Рахиль Львовна Баумволь, Yiddish: רחל בױמװאָל, Hebrew: רחל בוימוול; March 4, 1914, Odessa - June 16, 2000...

cheese on a bialy stick /biˈɑːli/ or /biˈæli/; Yiddish: ביאַלי byali, short for byalistoker kuchen Yiddish: ביאַליסטאָקער קוכען, from the city of Białystok...

Yiddishkeit is the Yiddish word for 'Jewishness' (Yiddish: ייִדישקײט) and refers to concepts of cultural identity among Ashkenazi Jews. Yiddishkeit, Yiddishkeyt...

Zalman (Yiddish: זלמן), occasionally Zalmen is a Yiddish-language variant of Solomon. The name was common among European Jews, and it still has usage in...

(Hebrew: וירה לוזינסקי; born 1974) is an Israeli-Moldovan musician and Yiddish language singer. Vira Lozinsky was born in 1974 in Bălți, Moldova (Bessarabia)...

attending graduate school, he learned of Yiddish while studying Franz Kafka. He mostly self-taught himself Yiddish, with some aid from Japan's limited Jewish...

Schools replaced traditional cheders, and standard German began to supplant Yiddish. Differences between the establishment and the Enlightened became irrelevant...

(German), Sascia (Italian), Sasja (Danish and Swedish) and סשה (Sasha – Yiddish). This name is especially common in Europe, where it is used by both females...

Seligmann is a name meaning "blessed man" in German and Yiddish. It may refer to: Seligman, Arizona Seligman, Missouri Seligmann (name), for a list of...

romanized: Semyhorod, Залісся Zalissiya, Трансильванія Transyl'vaniya Yiddish: זיבנבערגן, romanized: Zibnbergn, זימבערגן Zimbergn, טראַנסילוואַניע Transilvanye...

and Wisdom p. 55 Sanford Pinsker, The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction, pp. 11, 12 Biography of Motke Chabad translated...

the United States, Jewish immigrants, most of whose first language was Yiddish, would use an 'O' to sign documents, thus not using the sign of the cross...

inconclusive. In the older Yiddish dictionaries the word was translated as "German", but this meaning was not preserved, neither in Yiddish, nor Hebrew. The word...

Rachmil Leib Bryks (April 18, 1912 - October 2, 1974) (Yiddish and Hebrew: ירחמיאל בריקס) was a Yiddish author and poet known for his writings based on his...

States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish-language films. He made four Yiddish films that he shot on location...

Odesa is a blend of Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian cultures, and Odesa itself has played a notable role in Russian and Yiddish folklore. The Russian language...

Itsik Vaynshenker (Yiddish: איציק װײַנשענקער; 1914–1 December 1978), born as Yitskhok Vaynshenker (Yiddish: יצחק װײַנשענקער), was a Bessarabian Jewish...

Gribenes or grieven (Yiddish: גריבענעס, romanized: ˈɡribənəs, lit. 'cracklings'; Hebrew: גלדי שומן) is a dish consisting of crisp chicken or goose skin...

Molly Picon (Yiddish: מאָלי פּיקאָן; Malka Opiekun; February 28, 1898 – April 5, 1992) was an American actress of stage, screen, radio and television...

lyrics in Polish and in Yiddish for stage, film and cabaret, including szmonces. His wife was actress Zula Pogorzelska. Yiddish talkies were not only comparable...

part of Ottoman Palestine), Frumkin became an advocate of transnational Yiddish culture and gravitated towards the political philosophy of anarchism. After...

a fat, such as oil, margarine, or chicken fat. Known as knaidel in Yiddish (Yiddish: קניידלעך, romanized: kneydlekh pl., singular קניידל, kneydl; with...

Hebraist, and poet. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh, the most popular Yiddish chivalric romance. He was one of the foremost teachers of Hebrew and Jewish...

best known for his work in the Yiddish theatre. Lumet was born in Warsaw, then part of Congress Poland, to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. He immigrated...

מטפחת) or tichel (Yiddish: טיכל, headscarf), shpitzel, snood, hat, beret, fall, bonnet, veil, headscarf, bandana, and sheitel (Yiddish: שייטל, wig). The...

11th Victim Compensation Fund Leon Feinberg, (1897–1969) Russian-American Yiddish poet and journalist Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist Louis Feinberg...

1920 – November 28, 2013) was a Yiddish poet and songwriter. She was born in Vienna into an Eastern-European, Yiddish-speaking family; her family left...

Bein (German for leg) is a German and Yiddish surname and may refer to: Alex Bein (1903–1988), Jewish scholar Kazimierz Bein (1872–1959), Polish ophthalmologist...

Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays. It is the oldest Yiddish-language theater with uninterrupted activity in the world. Its contemporary...

Kadia Molodowsky (Yiddish: קאַדיע מאָלאָדאָװסקי; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia)...

was a Russian-born Jewish American actress and singer who was active in Yiddish theatre. She began her career at the age of 14 as a chorus girl in Sigmund...

Ellstein (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם עלשטײן, Avrom Elshtayn, July 7, 1907 – March 22, 1963) was an American composer, bandleader and recording artist in the Yiddish theatre...

Irving and Hymie Jacobson were well-established popular stars of the Yiddish theatre, at the time in its heyday on New York's Lower East Side. Adler...

Michael Marks (Yiddish: מיכאל מאַרקס; Polish: Michał Marks; 1859? – 31 December 1907) was a Polish-Jewish entrepreneur and later a British businessman...

school, Sholem Aleichem, were established. They taught Yiddish and Jewish Studies. These Yiddish schools were inspired by the forward thinking Tsisho schools...

Берди́чів, IPA: [berˈdɪtʃiu̯] ; Russian: Берди́чев; Polish: Berdyczów; Yiddish: בערדיטשעוו) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It...

Moissaye Joseph Olgin (Yiddish: משה יוסף אָלגין; March 24, 1878 – November 22, 1939) was a Russian-born Jewish American writer, journalist, and translator...

Germanic congregations, Ein Keiloheinu is sometimes sung, alternating Yiddish (also known as Judaeo-German) and Hebrew. Philadelphia based post-hardcore...

Nokhem Sztencl; Hebrew: אברהם נחום שטנצל; 1897–1983) was a Polish-born Yiddish poet. Stencl was born in Czeladź in south-western Poland, and studied at...

portraying them as European workers, primarily Polish-speaking, with minimal Yiddish. He avoided framing the conflict as nationalistic, instead emphasizing...

Holohory (Ukrainian: Гологори, Russian: Гологоры, Gologory, Polish: Gołogóry, Yiddish: גאָליגע, Goligor) is a village in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine...

maven or MAVEN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A maven is an expert. A Yiddish word, deriving from the modern Hebrew conjugation of the verb "lehavin"...

He briefly edited the Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime in the 1890s and contributed to other Yiddish-language periodicals. Katz...

Bovshover (Yiddish: יוסף באָװשאָװער; September 30, 1873 – December 25, 1915), also known under pseudonyms Basil Dahl and M. Turbov, was a Yiddish poet, essayist...

Thomashefsky (née Baumfeld-Kaufman; Yiddish: בעסי טהאמאשעווסקי 1873 – July 6, 1962) was a Ukrainian-American Yiddish theater actress and comedian. She was...

from Yiddish, Romani, and other minority languages of their region.[citation needed] The Yenish vocabulary contains many words of Romani and Yiddish (and...

Srul Bronshtein (Yiddish: סראָל בראָנשטײן; c. 1913–1943) was a Romanian and Soviet Yiddish-language poet. Srul Bronshtein was born into a Jewish baker's...

Reichmann or Reichman (Hebrew: רייכמן, Yiddish: רייכמאן) is a German and Yiddish surname. The name means that somebody is a very wealthy (rich) man; (reich...

A latke (Yiddish: לאַטקע, romanized: latke, lit. 'pancake'; sometimes romanized latka) is a type of potato pancake or fritter in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine...

Rokhl Brokhes (Yiddish: רחל בּרכות; September 23, 1880 – 1942 or 1945) was a Yiddish-language writer from Minsk (today in Belarus). She was the author...

he left unfinished at his death, but which was produced in Yiddish in 1919 by the Yiddish Art Theater and made into a film in the 1930s. In the late 1950s...

› A shtick is a comic theme or gimmick. The word is borrowed from the Yiddish term שטיק (shtik), making it related to German Stück, Polish sztuka, and...

Kugel (Yiddish: קוגל kugl, pronounced [ˈkʊɡl̩] or [ˈkɪɡl̩]) is a baked casserole, most commonly made from egg noodles (lokshen) or shredded potato. It...

A cheese blintzes or blintz (Hebrew: חֲבִיתִית; Yiddish: בלינצע) is a rolled filled pancake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in essence a wrap based on a...

February 6, 1897 – January 22, 1969) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet, writer, and journalist. Feinberg was born on February 6, 1897, in...

The Yiddish Theater was established in the Yiddish language in 1903, used by Jews in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Yiddish theater...

Yakov Lidski (or Yankev Lidski; Yiddish: יעקב לידסקי; 1868 in Slonim, Grodno Governorate, Russia – June 1, 1921 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Warsaw-based...

Botoşani or simply The Witch or The Sorceress (original Yiddish title Di kishefmakherin, tsoyberin; Yiddish: די כישוף-מאכערין, די צויבערין) was an 1878, or possibly...

Eliezer Steinbarg (Yiddish: אֱליעזֶר שטיינבארג Eliezer Shteynbarg; 2 March 1880 – 27 March 1932) was a Yiddish-school teacher and Yiddish poetic fabulist...

stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious...

in the Yiddish language, who wrote The Fools of Chełm and Their History (published in English translation in 1973), and the great Soviet Yiddish poet Ovsey...

Anna Guzik (Yiddish: אַננאַ גוזיק or חנה גוזיק, Russian: Анна Яковлевна Гузик, 1909–1994) was a Soviet variety artist, Russian and Yiddish theatre actress...

languages as well as his works on Yiddish culture. Furthermore, he is well known for his books "The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century"...

was a Polish American singer and actor. He was a significant figure in Yiddish theatre in the United States, and with his wife Miriam Kressyn he performed...

quality. Yiddish theatre also flourished; Poland had fifteen Yiddish theatres and theatrical groups. Warsaw was home to the most important Yiddish theater...

yidishn teater (Yiddish: לעקסיקאָן פֿון ייִדישן טעאַטער Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre or Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre) is a Yiddish language reference...

antifashistskovo komiteta, lit. 'Case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee'; Yiddish: הרוגי מלכות פֿונעם ראַטנפאַרבאַנד, romanized: Harugey malkhes funem Ratnfarband...

Haim Goldberg (Hebrew: חיים גולדברג; Yiddish: גאָלדבערג;‎ 1888 or 1890, Łuków, Siedlce Governorate, Russian Poland – 1943, Białystok Ghetto), also known...

Bronfenbrenner (Russian: Бронфенбреннер, Yiddish: בראָנפענברענער) is an Ashkenazi surname. Notable people with the surname include: Kate Bronfenbrenner...

conductor. Goldman’s compositions and arrangements are largely in the areas of Yiddish and Hebraic music. However, like his mentors, Ernest Bloch and Aaron Copland...

Goldene Pave (Yiddish: די גאלדענע פאווע; The Golden Peacock) refers to a mythical golden peacock and is a common symbol in Yiddish poetry. Yiddish poet Itzik...

sabesdiker-losn (Yiddish: דער סאַבעסדיקער לשון (לאָסן)) is a dialectal feature characteristic of the Northeastern dialect of the Yiddish language (NEY,...

Lev Berinski (Yiddish: לעװ בערינסקי, Russian: Лев Беринский; Căușeni, Soviet Union, April 6, 1939) is an Israeli translator and poet. He was born into...

Der Purimspiler (English: The Jester,Yiddish: דער פורים שפּילער) is a 1937 Polish black-and-white Yiddish musical comedy film directed by Joseph Green...

1923 – 30 January 2011) (Yiddish: חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב, khave rozenfarb) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major...

producer, who concentrated on Yiddish life and culture in the United States in the years 1932–1939, the era of Yiddish film in America. Lynn was an innovator...

of her soul" (in Yiddish), Sovetysh Heymland magazine, issue 11, 1988, Moscow, USSR T.Shklover. "Date with Jewish music" (in Yiddish). Folks-Sztyme weekly...

The Wanderer in the Paths of Life, Warsaw, Sefer, 1927 Hebrew literature Yiddish literature "Peretz Smolenskin". www.ithl.org.il. Retrieved 2018-01-02....

Daytshmerish (Yiddish: דײַטשמעריש) is a Yiddish derogatory term for Germanized variety of Yiddish orthography, style of speaking, and vocabulary. The...

(December 13, 1896 – June 2, 1977) was a Bessarabian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet and literary critic. Greenberg was born on December 13, 1896, in Lipcani...

February 13, 1991) was an American stage actor, most prominently starring in Yiddish theater during the 1960s and 70s. Sauer was born into a family of six in...

Zilber (Yiddish: זילבּער, Russian: Зильбер) is a surname and a variation of Silber. Notable people with the surname include: Amelie Zilber (born 2002)...

Sandler (Yiddish: סאנדלער, lit. 'sandalmaker') is a Yiddish family name. A rarer variant is Sendler. Adam Sandler (born 1966), American actor and comedian...

Matthau acted in several Yiddish theater productions and worked for a short time as a concession stand cashier in the Yiddish Theatre District. During...

Shuckling (also written as shokeling), from the Yiddish word meaning "to shake" (שאָקלען, shoklen), is the ritual swaying of worshippers during Jewish...

Pesakh "Paul" Novick (Yiddish: פסח נאוויק; September 7, 1891 – August 21, 1989) was a Jewish American journalist, editor, translator and political commentator...

source for this Yiddish collection. Drashot uFerushim al Ein Yaakov (18th century): Jonah Wehle of Prague, a Frankist, composed a Yiddish commentary which...

Mordechai Gebirtig (Polish: Markus Bertig Yiddish: מרדכי געבירטיג), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Polish Jewish...

(June 15, 1893 - September 22, 1962) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American Yiddish poet. Bialostotzky was born on June 15, 1893, in Pompiany, Kovno Governorate...

Culture or, in Yiddish, der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-kongres) is a secular organization founded[where?] in 1948 to promote Yiddish culture throughout...

Jacob Marinoff (Yiddish: יעקב מארינאװ; 3 December 1869 – 27 October 1964) was a Russian-born American Yiddish publisher and author. He was one of the...

borrowing from the Yiddish theatre. Yiddish contains a phonetically similar phrase that more literally wishes the listener good luck (Yiddish: הצלחה און ברכה...

It's Hard to be a Jew (Yiddish: Shver tsu zayn a yid) is a Yiddish-language comedy play by Sholom Aleichem about the difficulty of Jewish-Gentile relationships...

Wexler is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. Notable people with the surname include: David Wexler (director) (born 1983), American filmmaker Eleonora...

Nochem Sternheim (Yiddish: נחום שטרנהיים; December 7, 1876 - 1942) was Jewish poet, composer, and songwriter who wrote in Yiddish. Nachum Sternheim was...

Cooper. In 2018, Grey directed a Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof, which originated at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, then transferred...

In kashrut, the dietary laws of Judaism, pareve or parve (from Yiddish: פאַרעוו for "neutral"; in Hebrew פַּרוֶוה, parveh) is a classification of food...

1912. He performed in both Yiddish and English, on the stage, television, and film. He first joined Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater in 1921 -- his...

Russian: Иссур Даниэлович; Yiddish: איסור דניאלאָוויטש. Yiddish: ברינה סאַנגעל דאַניעלאָוויטש; Russian: Брина Сангель Даниелович. Yiddish: הערשל דאניעלאוויטש;...

Animation, as well as a musical. The name "Shrek" is a romanization of the Yiddish word שרעק (shrek), or שרעקלעך (shreklekh), related to the German Schreck...

before tens as in Afrikaans, Arabic, Early Modern English, Danish, Dutch, Yiddish and Frisian, e.g. twenty-one: einundzwanzig, 'one-and-twenty'. Students...

stated that "Yiddish was the dominant language of the Jewish community of Montreal". In 1931, 99.6% of Montreal Jews stated that Yiddish was their mother...

Pripetshik" (Yiddish: אויפן פריפעטשיק, also spelled "Oyfn Pripetchik", "Oyfn Pripetchek", etc.; English: "On the Hearth") is a Yiddish song by M.M. Warshawsky...

Fidler Afn Dakh (פידלער אויפן דאך) is a Yiddish-language adaptation of the musical Fiddler on the Roof translated and adapted by Shraga Friedman. The...

cucumber, and capers. The American English word lox is borrowed from Yiddish laks, meaning 'salmon',, which is derived from Middle High German lahs...

Leib Naidus (1890–1918, Yiddish: לײב נײַדוס, Russian: Лейб Найдус) was a Yiddish poet and literary translator from the Russian Empire. He died young and...

A tzedakah box (Hebrew: קוּפָּת צְדָקָה) or pushke (Yiddish: פּושקע) is a receptacle for charitable donations in Judaism. The earliest mention of a tzedakah...

Henriette Marx (née Pressburg;; Yiddish: הענריעטע פרעסבורג מארקס; 20 September 1788 – 30 November 1863) was a Dutch-born woman who was the mother of the...

conditions for office workers. Cassedy also translates into English from Yiddish. Cassedy was born in 1950 in Brooklyn to a Lithuanian-Jewish mother and...

It entered English through Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who used schmaltz to refer to kosher poultry fat; the Yiddish word שמאַלץ shmalts refers to...

Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University, specializing in Yiddish and Jewish...

גבירץ) is a Jewish surname, a Hebrew variant of the West Ashkenazi Jewish Yiddish surname געווירץ variously spelled Gevirtz/Gevirts/Gewirtz/Gewertz literally...

Essen teg or esn teg (Yiddish: עסן טעג, literally "Eating Days") was a practice of community boarding of Talmud students who came from remote places to...

founder, editor and publisher of Der Algemeiner Journal, one of the largest Yiddish-language weekly newspapers in North America. He died at the age of 70 and...

region of medieval Germany in the 9th century, Yiddish developed into two main branches: Western Yiddish, which remained in German-speaking territories...

September 3, 1993, New Hope, Pennsylvania) was an actor in the Yiddish theatre and in Yiddish language films, both in his native Poland and later in the United...

The Bucharest Yiddish Studio Theater (Yiddish: Bukareshter Idishe Teater-Studie, BITS) was a short-lived, experimental Yiddish theater founded in Bucharest...

Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם, romanized: Golus natsionalizm; Hebrew: לאומיות גלות, romanized: Leumiyút gālūṯ), or diaspora nationalism...

living abroad due to their opposition to the invasion. Musique Russe & Yiddish (OTZ, 1999) Чтоб Душа Развернулась... (Let the Soul Unfold, Kailas Records...

Russian: Хаим Соломонович Сутин, romanized: Khaim Solomonovich Sutin; Yiddish: חײם סוטין, romanized: Chaim Sutin; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was...

children's Hanukkah song in the English-speaking world that also exists in a Yiddish version called "Ikh bin a kleyner Dreydl", (איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Lit:...

Yosef Yitzchak (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (Yiddish: יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן; 21 June 1880 – 28 January 1950) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual...

Pauker or Paucker (Russian: Паукер, Yiddish: poyker) is a surname of German origin. It may refer to: Alexander Paucker (1905–1972), Romanian composer...

Israel Jonah Medres (Yiddish: ישראל יונה מדרש; 1894 – August 6, 1964) was a Canadian Yiddish journalist and writer. Israel Medres was born in Lekhovich...

(Yiddish) Иудифь Iudif’ (Russian) Ιουδίθ Iudith (Greek) יהודית Y'hudit (Hebrew) يهوديت Yahudit (Arabic) יהודית Yehudit (Hebrew) יידעל Yidel (Yiddish)...

Glückel of Hameln (Yiddish: גליקל בת ר׳ יהודה לייב האַמיל Glikl bas Reb Yehude Leyb Hamil; also spelled Glückel, Glüeckel, Glickl Hamel or Glikl of Hamelin;...

Kholodenko (Russian: Шифра Наумовна Холоденко, Yiddish: שפרה כאלאדענקא; 1909–1974) was a Russian- and Yiddish-language poet, writer and translator from the...

actress, the first prima donna in Yiddish theater Israel Grodner (1848–1887), one of the founding performers in Yiddish theater Zygmunt Grodner (1932–2020)...

Yetta Zwerling Silverman (December 25, 1894 – January 17, 1982) was a Yiddish movie star during the 1930s and 1940s. Yetta Zwerling was born in Kalievo...

Joel Teitelbaum (Yiddish: יואל טייטלבוים, romanized: Yoyel Teytlboym, IPA: [ˈjɔɪ.əl ˈtɛɪtl̩bɔɪm]; 13 January 1887 – 19 August 1979) was a Hungarian-born...

English of Yiddish literature. Leftwich was born in the Netherlands. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry...

Ester Rachel Kamińska (Yiddish: אסתּר־רחל קאַמינסקאַ; née Ester-Rokhl Halpern; 10 March 1870 in Porozów – 25 December 1925 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress...

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is a professional theater company in New York City, founded in 1915, which produces both Yiddish plays and plays...

January 31, 1979) was an American actress, known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre". Tzirele Adler was born in New York City on December 6, 1889,...

Yakov Fuchs (1880–1921) was a Yiddish theater actor. Born in Lemburg (Lviv), Galitsia, he joined a Yiddish theater chorus at the age of 17 and after singing...

a teakettle"; Yiddish: האַקן אַ טשײַניק), meaning to rattle on loudly and insistently, but without any meaning, is a widely used Yiddish idiomatic phrase...

in Yiddish, Arthur Szyk (1980), Tsvishn shrek un hofenung (1947), and Ven di Visl hot geredt Yidish (1970) were among the “1000 Essential Yiddish Books”...

A black wedding (Yiddish: shvartse khasene), or plague wedding (Yiddish: mageyfe khasene) is a Jewish custom consisting of a wedding performed in times...

are now represented in modern languages such as English, German, Dutch, Yiddish, Afrikaans, and others. Within the West Germanic language dialect continuum...

dictionary. Tushy may refer to: A slang word for buttocks, derived from the Yiddish tuchas Tushy.com, a pornographic film brand owned by Vixen Media Group...

Greenspun (Anglicized from Yiddish: גרינשפּון) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hank Greenspun (1909–1989), American newspaper publisher...

Aron Vergelis (Yiddish: אהרן װערגעליס; Russian: Аро́н А́лтерович Верге́лис; 7 May 1918, in Liubar (now in Zhytomyr Oblast) – 7 April 1999, in Moscow)...

Dina Abramowicz (Yiddish: דינה אַבראַמאָװיטש; 1909 – April 3, 2000) was a librarian at YIVO and a Yiddish language expert. Abramowicz was born in Vilnius...