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The following descriptions of Yiddish dialects have the same goal as the work published in Volume I of the Tsaytshrift [ journal]. For the most part, the material has been collected the…
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M. Veinger
Date:
1928
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies
(Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Iehudah Machabeu
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La Rochelle, Kingdom of France
(La Rochelle, France)
Date:
1655
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
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An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
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Lów Wallach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1716
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For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1579
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Hebrew:Woe be to me, in my old age,
That it should have to come to this:
That I stand in judgment here
With a shameless servant girl
And her vulgar band of friends.
No one knows me anymore!
Yiddish:O…
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“Eliyahu”
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1906
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Demagogue:A leader and rabble rouser for the masses, who rouses the simple benighted people, provoking their most base desires, their feelings of jealousy and hate, and has therefore a great sway over…
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Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1907
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
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Avram Naon
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1912