The language of the Jewish

The language of the Jewish

Yiddish was at one time the worldwide dialect of Ashkenazic Jews (the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe and their descendants). A hybrid of Hebrew and medieval German, Yiddish takes about three-quarters of its language from German, but scrounges phrases liberally from Hebrew and numerous other dialects from the numerous countries where Ashkenazic Jews have lived. It has a grammatical structure all its own, and is in writing in an letters founded on Hebrew characters. Scholars and universities classify Yiddish as a Germanic dialect, though some have interrogated that classification.

 Yiddish was not ever ...