#jewish languages

[bubbbeleh]

Some of you need to re-evaluate the way you talk about Yiddish because it's getting weird.

Disclaimer: Yiddish is my native language. I was forced to stop speaking it at a very young age and am only now getting back into it. I am very immersed in the academic discourse and am sick and tired of it.

I've been seeing people pitting Hebrew and Yiddish against each other for ages, and it is truly disgusting.

Yiddish has a difficult standing in Israel. It was the language of a large part of the Jewish people killed during the Shoah. But, contrary to popular belief, it is not a dead language.

Pitting Hebrew and Yiddish against each other is counterproductive at best, but also really dangerous. I've been called a traitor for learning Yiddish "in a time like this". I've been told that it's a useless language, that I would be much better off learning modern Hebrew. And I see all of the bad-faith takes from goyim, switching back and forth between painting Ashkenazi Jews as the ultimate Evil and vilifying (((the Zionists))) for 'erasing' Yiddish culture in Israel.

I have had the privilege of meeting and working with Mendi Cahan, founder of Yung Yidish Tel Aviv, who is one of the most inspiring people I've met. His life's work is a collection of Yiddish books, about 80.000 volumes strong, located in the Bus Station in Tel Aviv. And as he put it, it's easy to give into the hopelessness, that such a huge chuck of that culture was killed. But we cannot let that happen. Yiddish is alive and well. Native speakers exist and if you genuinely, truly want to help maintain it, there are ways for you to do that:

YIVO

Yiddish book center

Yung Yidish Tel Aviv

Medem Library

Video of Mendi Cahan talking about Yiddish culture in Israel (German website with German subtitles but the video itself is in English)

If you don't have anything productive to say, don't say anything.

#judaism #jumblr #jewish #eden talks #yiddish #young Yidish tel aviv #yiddish book center #yivo #jewish languages #jewblr #israel

[salvadorbonaparte]

Ladino Resources

Books 

MEGA folder

Websites and Apps

The Sephardic Studies Digital Collection

UTalk

Memrise

Omniglot

El Amaneser

eSefarad

Emisión en Sefardí

Youtube

Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino i su Kultura

Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage

Ora de Despertar

Wikitongues

The Sound of the Ladino Language

Ocho Candelikas

#ladino #jewish languages #langblr #lingblr #language resources #the resource series

[rotzaprachim]

ladino news paper from the US in 1926. highly recc taking a look if you know hebrew letters and any spanish

#i would looooove to take a more systemic ladino class omg. the yud trips me up a bit #ladino #jewish languages

[languagehealing]

50 Beginner Hebrew Words

(This is a re-make of my old Hebrew word lists, all compiled into one post and edited/modified).

Pink – ורוד

Red - אדום

Orange - כתום

Yellow – צהוב

Green - ירוק

Blue – כחול

Purple - סגול

Brown – חום

Black – שחור

Gray - אפור

White - לבן

1 – אחת

2 – שתים

3 – שלוש

4 – ארבע

5 – חמש

6 – שש

7 – שבע

8 – שמונה

9 – תשע

10 – עשר

Head – ראש

Hair – שיער

Eye – עין

Ear - אוזן

Nose – אף

Mouth – פה

Arm - זרוע

Leg - רגל

Hand - יד

Foot - כף רגל

Mother – אמא

Father – אבא

Child - ילד

Daughter – בת

Son – בן

Sister – אחות

Brother – אח

Grandma – סבתא

Grandpa – סבא

Aunt – דודה

Uncle – דוד

Clothes – בגדיים

Shirt – חולצה

Pants – מכנסיים

Shoe – נעל

Water - מים

Bread - לחם

Cat - חתול

Dog - כלב

#hebrew #langblr #original #languageblr #jewish languages

[willowchild]

I am once again thinking of this

I am sooo normal about this

#i think Israel and jewish schools worldwide should offer courses in the endagerd languages. we should make shows and movies and books too #^ saying this when i barely know Yiddish:( #languages are so important to me #now i just remembered the montasir bitola community:((( idek what langauge they spoke. and when survivors of these places #came 2 israel they spoke hebrew so their descendants dint know these languages either it died w them #rly good kan 11 video abt thrm ^^^ #it speaks #linguistics #jewish languages

[the-catboy-minyan]

due to a certain asshole spewing bullshit in spacelazarwolf's notes, I wanna emphasize something:

YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WANT TO LEARN HEBREW TO BE JEWISH

the only thing you need to be Jewish is to be Jewish. a Jew is a Jew.

(this message does not include messianic jews)

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #jewish positivity #diaspora jews #jewish converts #patrilineal jews #reform judaism #conservative judaism #orthodox judaism #secular jews #all of them are fucking Jews regardless of what languages they speak #I can't believe I have to say this in 5784 #gatekeepers are not welcome on my blog ☺️

[jouissanceangel]

FRIENDS — PLEASE SHARE!

The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx was recently the victim of antisemitic vandalism. They have started a GoFundMe to cover cleaning costs. They need our help! The center is a vital Yiddishist organization that has been serving New York for over 50 years, and they are in desperate need of financial assistance. Please reblog and share widely!!!! A gitn shabes.

#yiddish #jewish #jumblr #judaism #fundraising #jews #langblr #languages #diaspora #fundraiser

[zahut]

“There’s a great Yiddish expression that says, “If I knew God, I’d be God.” In fact, I think that claiming that you “know God’s will” is an act of incredible hubris. Instead, what we say about God has much more to say about us than about God. There are, in fact, a whole range of different theologies within Judaism (you can find some of them in the terrific books “Finding God” and “The God Upgrade,” both of which describe a whole range of differing, and sometimes even conflicting, theologies.) And while I can only speak personally here, to me, “God” isn’t really a noun at all—it’s a verb. Here’s why. The most common name that God gives Godself in the Torah is “YHWH,” a name that is sometimes thought to be so holy that no one was allowed to pronounce it. But that’s not exactly right—it’s not that “YHWH” was not allowed to be pronounced, it’s that it is literally unpronounceable, since it consists of four Hebrew vowels (yod, hay, vav and hay). By the way, that’s also why some people incorrectly call this name “Yahweh,” since (as Rabbi Lawrence Kushner once said), if you tried to pronounce a name that was all vowels, you’d risk serious respiratory injury. But even more importantly, the name YHWH is actually a conflation of all the tenses of the Hebrew verb “to be.” God’s name could be seen as “was-is-will be,” so God isn’t something you can’t capture or name—God is only something you can experience. And indeed, when Moses is at the burning bush, having just been told by God that he will be leading the Israelites out of Egypt, he says, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God responds that God’s name is “Ehyeh asher ehyeh,” which is often translated as “I am what I am.” But it could also be translated as, “I am what I will be.” So God is whatever God will be—we simply have no idea. Indeed, for my own theology, I believe that God is found in the “becoming,” transforming “what will be” into “what is.””

— Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

#quotes #text #words #language #yiddish #jumblr #jewish tag

[bubbbeleh]

thinking about klal yiddish. and the medem sanatorium. thinking about how our language was standardised and taught in schools and how there is a long and rich history of literature and art and music and it’s brushed off as long gone when it’s right here. uriel weinreich published his amazing workbook in 1947 and it’s still in use today. we still know itzik manger and basheves singer and i still know all the lullabies and short stories and little jokes.

yiddish is alive and beautiful. they didn’t win. we’re not going anywhere.

מיר וועלן זיי איבערלעבן

#judaism #jumblr #jewish #eden talks #yiddish #jewish languages #late for international holocaust remembrance day

[hussyknee]

People declaring the Pope should excommunicate Joe Biden for genocide has me like??? Bro...what do you think the Catholic Church was built on...

#Pope Francis did call for a ceasefire and actually used the word ''cease'' even if he used waffly both-sides language #he's also been pretty progressive about recognizing and apologizing for the church's role #in the Canadian First Nation's and Rwandan genocides #but that's still bare minimum #and there was that whole deal with the Catholic Church helping save Jews in the Holocaust #but trying to help the people you helped victimize in the first place shouldn't be counted IMO #certainly doesn't erase centuries of Jewish persecution #xtianty #colonialism #Spanish colonialism #Portuguese colonialism #genocide #genocide Joe #free palestine #knee of huss

[vexnatos]

אין לטקסט הזה מטרה מלבד הפצת פחד בקרב החוששים מהשפה העברית

#jumblr #hebrew #since the left wants to be afraid of the language of the Jewish People #israel #judaism #judaism intensifies #jewblr

[ravensvirginity]

Some actual Yiddish phrases for Speak Your Language Day, because the top post in the Yiddish tag is extremely inaccurate:

אַ תּירוץ פֿאַר די בענטשליכט - a teruts far di bentshlikht: lit. "an excuse for the shabbat candles", fig. "a terrible excuse"

אָט ליגט דער הונט באַגראָבן - ot ligt der hunt bagrobn: lit. "here the dog is buried", fig. "that's where the problem lies"

אמת װי גאָלד - emes vi gold: lit. "true as gold", fig. "indisputable truth"

קאַצן־יאָמער - katsn-yomer: lit. "caterwaul", fig. "hangover"

אַ גאַנץ יאָר שיכּור, פּורים ניכטער - a gants yor shiker, purim nikchter: lit. "drunk all year but sober on Purim", fig. "someone who does the opposite of what expected"

These are just a few, of course there are way more!

ייִדיש רעדערס, איך װאָלט געװען זײער צופֿרידן אױב איר װאָלט צוגעגעבן מער!

#yiddish #ייִדיש #jumblr #jewish #judaism #syld #speak your language day

[charliecharlston]

honestly the english vs hebrew pronunciation of canaan is so vast that ny hebrew speaking ass did not make the connection for a few yrs. like yall are putting sll the wrong emphasis on all the wrong places im so sorry😭

anyways people need to ask me more about how i feel abt american accents on hebrew

#ישראבלר #טאמבלר ישראלי #jewish #jumblr #ישראלים #judaism #יהדות #hebrew #hebrew speaker #languages #cay-nan in english and cna'an in hebrew is do vastly different u dont get it

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

#greece #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #romaniote #old & new #my posts #for all u Westerners 'rom' = constantinople referring to itself as the roman empire #so rome/italy is like 'west roman' constantinople/greece/anatolia is like 'east roman' #in the west its called 'byzantine' from 'byzantium' (proto-constantinople) #also it insinuates w roman empire was the 'real' roman empire (despite east lasting 1000 years longer) #in most mediterranean & w asian languages greece/greek is 'yunan/yawan/yavan' (from ionians) or 'rum/rom' (from roman) #in actual greek it's 'hellas'/'ellas' (from hellenic) #in georgian it's 'saberdzneti' for some reason but they also have their own names for a bunch of places #'greece' comes from the latin name 'graecia' #in a lot of slavic languages it's some variation of 'greece'. weird considering most were never/hardly under latin influence #if you think this is a lot just wait until u hear about the all the names for armenia #but yeah these guys were also in a lot of the balkans. if you're from the balkans and jewish you MAY have romaniote ancestry #(at least more recent romaniote ancestry than all other european jews) #not a guarantee though especially if you're ashkenazi #theres like. other jewish groups in europe that predated ashkenazi migration #most of them just got absorbed into the ashkenazi population

[linguisticdiscovery]

shm-reduplication

You know when you repeat a word but start it with shm instead of the original letter to be ironic, sarcastic, or derisive?

Like the U.S. congress might say, “Budget? What budget? Budget shmudget.”

This is called shm-reduplication, and English borrowed this construction from Yiddish!

When a language has a regular grammatical process whereby a word or part of a word is repeated to form a new meaning, this is called reduplication.

Here’s a fun article from the Atlantic about shm-reduplication:

If you want to learn more about Yiddish, a really fun and informative book on the topic is Born to Kvetch: Yiddish language and culture in all its moods:

#Yiddish #English #reduplication #grammar #language #linguistics #Jewish #lingblr #langblr

[vaspider]

hehehehe i got a thermal label printer that can handle Yiddish/Hebrew letters

time to label everything in the house with Yiddish vocabulary words :3

#jumblr #yiddish #language #jewish history