Learning from Elders: Chapter 2, Page 9

Raz Chen make a new Yiddish-speaking friend in Esther Rosenbaum.

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4 thoughts on “Learning from Elders: Chapter 2, Page 9”

RBZ says:

2019/09/12 at 15:17

So Yiddish is a mixture of Germanic and Hebrew lexicons, and written in the Hebrew alphabet?

I was not aware of that. Interesting.
DNASaur says:

2019/09/12 at 17:36

Yiddish seems a fascinating language.
Petronius says:

2019/09/12 at 19:03

Yiddish was originally spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews of Northern and Eastern Europe. The Sephardic Jews of Iberia and North Africa developed Ladino, which is a mixture of Hebrew and Spanish. Both languages have declined since the Holocaust, but Yiddish is making a comeback as the home language of the Hasidics, who mostly live in North America. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, most of the Yiddish speakers in the US are in the New York area.
- nemo69 says:
  
  2019/09/12 at 21:27
  
  The swear words never left the lexicon. Everyone knows what a schmuck is.

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