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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Two X letters
  • Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:03:38 -0400

OK, here am I, not a scholar, just a person who grew up in a Torah observant home (in Queen, NYC) where both my parents and both sets of grandparents spoke Yiddish and (almost) Hebrew fluently, and me learning Hebrew since kindergarten, telling you that I always was under the impression that the relationship between Yiddish and Hebrew was that Yiddish was the vernacular adaptation in Poland, Russia, etc., to their main Love, (you know, it was the language of our liturgy and Torah) Hebrew - that Yiddish was a "Germanized" Hebrew, not vice versa.

Shoshanna



Being fluent in both Hebrew and Yiddish I know that Zuckerman's claim
is inherently wrong. Also your claim that Hebrew owes "a lot of debt
to Yiddish" is not, in my knowledge, even remotely substantiated. And
what is "a lot", does this constitute a measure for something?




  • Re: [b-hebrew] Two X letters, Shoshanna Walker, 10/29/2007

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