In Praise of Yiddish

Aramaic aykh azoy balebos balegole become bentshn blessing called connotation curse Dales dayn daytshmerizm dish English er hot er iz father freylekh Germanic equivalent Germanic words geven gevorn Hebraic Hebrew Hebrew words hefker hobn Holy honor hot zikh idiom ikh hob implies Jewish Jewry kapore kapote kaptsn kashe keyn khasene khazer kheyder kind kosher language learned lehavdl literally living locution loshn makhn matzo Max Weinreich mayn mayse meaning mekhutn Midrash never nisht nokh noun one's oprikhtn original parekh person phrase pious prayer pushke rabbi Rashi rebe religious s'iz Sabbath sacred secular sense shabes Sholom Aleichem shoyfer shoykhet shoyn shtetl Slavic someone speak spodik story synagogue synonyms Talmud Tevye thing tion Torah toyre translation turned Uriel Weinreich velt verb vocabulary wedding Yiddish Language Yiddish words Yiddish-speaking Jews yikhes yom kiper zayn zaynen zikh nit