From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Hebrew vs Yiddish
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:26:55 -0400
Thank you for that information. I really never knew. That is very
interesting - especially that it is a means "by which the movements
of the Jews through Europe may be traced."
Shoshannah - Yiddish is not a "Germanized" Hebrew but is a mixture by which
the movements of the Jews through Europe may be traced. It is primarily based
on German with some corrupted admixtures of Romance languages - since, after
all, they came from the defunct Roman Empire. (I.e. cholent is a corruption
of the French chaud et lent, carried eastward by Alsatian/Rhineland Jews
migrating through Germany into Poland. Once in Eastern Europe,
Slavic terms were
adopted which did not appear in the Juden-Teitsch spoken by Jews residing in
Germany. And, of course, some Hebrew terms were retained, albeit in
corrupted, "Yiddishized" form.
Doris Gahler
[b-hebrew] Hebrew vs Yiddish,
Shoshanna Walker, 10/30/2007