Earliest Yiddish

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• YIDDISH LANGUAGE — YIDDISH LANGUAGE, language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stocks, the language was gradually molded to serve a wide range of communicative needs. As the society… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• YIDDISH LITERATURE — This articles is arranged according to the following outline: introduction UNTIL THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY the bible in yiddish literature epic homiletic prose drama liturgy ethical literature Historical Songs and Writings transcriptions of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Yiddish language — Not to be confused with Hebrew language. Yiddish ייִדיש yidish Pronunciation [ˈjɪdɪʃ] Spoken in United States, Israel, Argentina …   Wikipedia

• Yiddish theatre — consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama;… …   Wikipedia

• Yiddish literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic (Ashkenazi) Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants).       Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired …   Universalium

• Yiddish language — Language of Ashkenazic Jews and their descendants (see Ashkenazi), written in the Hebrew alphabet. Yiddish developed from southeastern dialects of Middle High German carried into central and eastern Europe beginning in the 12th century; it has… …   Universalium

• Yiddish literature — Jewish culture Visual Arts Visual Arts list …   Wikipedia

• CAMBRIDGE YIDDISH CODEX — CAMBRIDGE YIDDISH CODEX, manuscript from the cairo genizah (Ben Ezra synagogue in Fustat), now in the Taylor Schechter collection, Cambridge University Library (T. S. 10K22). It is the oldest known collection of Yiddish texts (dated 1382) and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• LITERATURE, JEWISH — Literature on Jewish themes and in languages regarded as Jewish has been written continuously for the past 3,000 years. What the term Jewish literature encompasses, however, demands definition, since Jews have lived in so many countries and have… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• West Germanic languages — Introduction   group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English (English language),… …   Universalium

• PERETZ, ISAAC LEIB — (Yitskhok Leybush; 1852–1915), Yiddish and Hebrew author. Peretz was one of the three classic Yiddish writers – with S.Y. Abramovitsh and sholem aleichem – and the founder of Yiddish modernism. In the first decade of the 20th century he was at… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism