Like if in Midwest, (except Chicago) or southern US, if I said I have to schlep something across town, or I called omeone a putz, schlub or schmuck, would they know what it meant? Would it just seem strange and unnatural? Or has Jewish culture and lexicon been somewhat integrated across US (I wonder if tv/media may have helped this, if so).
Edit: I just saw from this sitehttps://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/10-yiddish-words-that-arent-in-english-but-should-be/ thanks to commenter, shushkeh pronounced "shoosh-keh" means whisper. I wonder if "shushing" someone or saying "shhh" for short is also of Yiddish origin? Endlessly interesting!
https://archive.is/my4zZ
Hello Reddit, I've wanted to learn a language for quite some time now and I kind of settled on learning Yiddish, this is for a couple of reasons. 1) Not a lot of people speak Yiddish so it's kind of a good skill to have. 2) The Yiddish language sounds beautiful. The problem is that I'm not Jewish/Ashkenazi Jewish. So with that in mind, do you think I can learn the Yiddish language without being insensitive?
Prior to the Hebrew language revival that commenced in the late 19th Century, Hebrew had been dead as a natural language for approx. 2000 years. Through this time Hebrew was used as a liturgical language and the language of prayer by the Jewish people. However, when the Hebrew language revival began in Israel, new arrivals to Israel required Hebrew language classes; these classes continue to this day. It was noted that Ashkenazi Jews struggled to acquire the Hebrew language more than Sephardic and Arabic Jews. But shouldn't Jewish people have already had knowledge of Hebrew by reading their sacred texts and vocalising prayers? Did the average Jewish person have a working knowledge of Hebrew prior to the Hebrew revival, or was it similar to the use of Latin in the Catholic Church prior to Vatican II - when many people knew the Latin words of the prayers said in Mass, but not their exact meaning, and knew no other Latin?
Do to the genocides and now very large diaspora Im not sure if itd be possible or if Assyrians even want it, so i decided to ask here, sorry if this seems stupid
Hello everyone!
I am a volunteer working with the Jewish Languages Documentation and Revitalization Project at Wikitongues. We are working to collect eight hours of oral histories in every Jewish diaspora language (see list below). If you are interested (or know someone who is), please let me know or email us at hello@wikitongues.org. Thank you!
Jewish Languages:
Yiddish (Standardized, Eastern, Western, Palestinian)
Israeli Sign Language
Judeo-Arabic (Iraqi, Moroccan, Tripolitanian/Libyan, Tunisian, Yemeni, Aleppine/Syrian, Egyptian)
Judeo-Aramaic
Yevanic (Judeo-Greek)
Judeo-Persian
Bukhari (Judeo-Tajik)
Juhuri (Judeo-Tat)
Judeo-Shirazi
Judeo-Median/Judeo-Hamedani
Lotera'i
Judezmo (Ladino)
Haketía (Ladino)
Judeo-Italian (Roman, Venetian, Livornese, Emilia-Romagnan, Piedmontese, Florentine, Corfiot)
Judeo-Malayalam
Karaim
Krymchak
Judeo-Berber
Ghardaia Sign Language (Jewish Algerian Sign Language)
Qwara (Judeo-Qimant)
Kayla (Judeo-Qimant)
Judeo-Amharic
Judeo-Georgian
Jewish Latin American Spanish
Jewish Swedish
Jewish English
Jewish Hungarian
Jewish Russian
Judeo-Portuguese
Judeo-Occitan
E.g. Ladino, Haketia, Judeo-Arabic
