Yiddish: The National Language Of No Where?
My first discovery of Yiddish as a language by itself goes back to my english literature class at the University. If my memory is not wrong, some characters of Harold Pinter's play "The Homecoming" (1965) used Yiddish words. At that time I was taking german courses at the Goethe Institute of Tunis something that helped me alot in understanding Yiddish, which is basically a germanic language.The following review via Arts & Letters Daily gives you more details on Yiddish and its history.
posted by Hannibal | 9:55 AM
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Very interesting, thanks for the info. I always thought that Yiddish was a variety of Hebrew that got westernized. In fact, never thought of it as a germanic language (jüdisch) since it uses the same alphabet than hebrew.
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