A Window Into Judaism: The warmth, wit, and resilience of the historic Yiddish language
Ellie Roden
Do you know that if you use words like schlep, glitch, kvetch, chutzpah. klutz, schtick or maven, you are speaking Yiddish?
What is Yiddish?
A blend of German, Slavic, and Hebrew, Yiddish was the everyday language of Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe for over a thousand years, until the Holocaust.
It’s a language famous for its colorful expressions, packed with humor, irony, and warmth.
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