TEKHINES. Tekhines, a Yiddish word from the Hebrew Teḥinnot, "supplications," are Jewish private devotions and paraliturgical prayers in Yiddish written by both women and men but recited primarily by women. As texts in the...

Variant of German which arose during the Middle Ages as a trade language of Jews in important centers of commerce (countries along the Rhine and Danube). Today the East European branch of Yiddish (language of the Ashkenazic Jews) has approx. 5 million...

Language of Ashkenazic Jews and their descendants (&see; Ashkenazi), written in the Hebrew alphabet. Yiddish developed from southeastern dialects of Middle High German carried into central and eastern Europe beginning in the 12th century; it has been...

Language of the *Ashkenazic community. Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters. Although it died out in Western Europe, it continued to be used in Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland and the Ukraine. Before the *holocaust, there were thought to be...

// n. A semi-jocular label applied to instances of the fronting of focused elements which are typical of the Yiddish-influenced English of the New York City area but which sound odd to most other speakers of English. Examples are My brother-in-law he...

Yiddish (××Ö'×"×ש yidish or ×××"×ש idish, literally: "Jewish") is a non-territorial Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. It originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th...