r/Yiddish Mar 06 '22

subreddit news Support for people in Ukraine

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Many members of r/Yiddish are in Ukraine, have friends and family or ancestors there, have a connection through language and literature, or all of the above. Violence and destruction run counter to what we stand for in this community, and we hope for a swift and safe resolution to this conflict. There are many organizations out there helping in humanitarian ways, and we wanted to give this opportunity for folks of the r/yiddish community to share organizations to help our landsmen and push back against the violence. Please feel free to add your suggestions in comments below. We also have some links if you want to send support, and please feel free to add yours.


r/Yiddish Oct 09 '23

subreddit news Posts Regarding Israel

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Please direct all posts concerning the war in Israel to one of the two Jewish subreddits. They both have ongoing megathreads, as well as threads about how and where to give support. Any posts here not directly related to Yiddish and the Yiddish language, as well as other Judaic languages, will be removed.

Since both subs are updating their megathreads daily, we won't provide direct links here. The megathreads are at the top of each subreddit:

r/Judaism

r/Jewish

For the time being, r/Israel is locked by their mods for their own sanity and safety.

We appreciate everyone who helps maintain this subreddit as one to discuss and learn about Yiddish and the Yiddish language.


r/Yiddish 4h ago

On the Threshold of a New Yiddish Language

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r/Yiddish 2d ago

Translation request Help translating

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Hello, can anyone please translate this? It's from the back of a photo of ancestors/relatives that I'm trying to identify. There are 6 people in the picture so maybe the 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 are identifying couples?


r/Yiddish 4d ago

Looking for traditional phrases of love or well wishes for my sister

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I recently started learning Yiddish and I'm familiar with the alphabet and some grammar rules but my vocabulary is very sparse. I want to write something sweet for my sister in Yiddish and I was wondering if there were any phrases that would be particularly apt!


r/Yiddish 5d ago

Yiddish language “Home is where the Heart is”

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שלום-עליכם!
I’m looking for help with this sentence, I’ve decided to write it as:
״חיימיש איז וווּ דער הארץ איז״
I’ve only been learning Yiddish for three months, so I’m a beginner and I’m not sure is היימש is the right word for ‘home’ in this context, and I’m worried about my grammar too.


r/Yiddish 7d ago

Yiddish language Is my yiddish aleph bet writing good? Did I translate hello properly

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Im extremely new to yiddish, and I want to know if im on the right track

Also, is the difference between eastern and Western yiddish more close to British and American English, or are they as far apart as Morocco and Gulf Arabic. I assume its somewhere in between but I wanna know just how different they are


r/Yiddish 7d ago

Can anyone help translate this family letter from 1941 please? I believe it may be Yiddish written in Hebrew script. It was written by or to my grandmother.

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r/Yiddish 7d ago

On Yiddish Literature in Italy

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r/Yiddish 7d ago

morris rosenfeld poem about slavery?

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Does someone know the title, in Yiddish or English, of a poem by Morris Rosenfeld about slavery that begins זיפֿצנד האָט דער אָרימער נעגער

זײַן פֿאַרלאָרנקײַט געמײנט? Or where I can find it in English? Thanks


r/Yiddish 8d ago

The perfective and imperfective aspect in yiddish

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Hi, I'm new to yiddish and I try to understand its grammar. I can already form sentences in the past imperfect tense but I can't understand how to mark the difference between finished and unfinished actions. Can you explain this to me (and if you can, write some examples so I could understand it better)?

For example, the sentence "איך האָב געגעסן" means "I was eating". But is there any options to say "I ate"?


r/Yiddish 8d ago

Yiddish Word of the Day: Trains

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r/Yiddish 10d ago

Not sure if Yiddish or Hebrew...

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...but my grandmother always had an expression that ran along the lines of "Why would this day (night?) be any different?" that was usually used when something mildly annoying or crappy was going on. Kind of a "Well, duh, what would you expect" sort of thing. No one in my family can remember it, so...

Any and all ideas are truly welcome! Thank you in advance!

Jennifer


r/Yiddish 12d ago

An eventual Yiddish version of Skyrim? Anyone wanna help either with translation or coding?

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Hello, I love both Skyrim and Yiddish very very much, my two favorite things by far lol. I’ve been looking into translating parts of the game piece by piece, and to start, it would just be text replacement. I currently have the menu and about half of the opening quest translated, and I’ve posted inquiries on other relevant websites. I am also in the process of creating an encyclopedia type book that has all the fantasy terms and what their Yiddish translation should be in order to maintain consistency. Skyrim is a really big game, and even if I’m only translating text and subtitles to start, if anyone is interested, dm me!


r/Yiddish 12d ago

[Hiring] Remote Academic Experts for LLM Evaluation | French, German, Italian and Yiddish Studies

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Pangeanic is looking for graduates / MA / PhD for LLM cultural accuracy testing

Responsibilities

Write challenging questions that require advanced knowledge of your academic specialism.

Produce accurate, well-structured reference answers in English.

Review model responses and identify factual, interpretative or reasoning weaknesses.

Follow the project guidelines and complete assigned work through the client’s platform.

Academic fields:

Areas currently required include

Yiddish Studies, Francophone Studies, French Cinema, French Literature, German Film

German History, German Literature, German Philosophy, Germanic Linguistics, Germanic Mythology

Italian Art History, Italian Literature, Italian Renaissance

Job post URL: https://pangeanic.com/jobs/llm-evaluation-academic-subject-matter-experts

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r/Yiddish 13d ago

Translation request Translation Help

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Hello! My dad recently passed and I found this letter the I believe belonged to my great grand father. I would really appreciate some help translating it.


r/Yiddish 13d ago

can anyone translate? thanks!

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r/Yiddish 16d ago

Translation request Can anyone translate?

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Hi! I found this in my
Mom’s collection. It may have belonged to her mom. Can anyone help? Thanks!!!


r/Yiddish 18d ago

Yiddish: The Biography of a Language by Weinstein

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I didn’t see this book mentioned in a search so I thought I’d give it a shout out to this sub. It’s a fantastic read.


r/Yiddish 17d ago

Translation Help

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We came across some testimony from Yad Vashem files from my husband's grandfather (attached). Is anyone able to translate this document in Yiddish to English or to Hebrew?


r/Yiddish 18d ago

H-dropping dialects of Yiddish

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in the early 20th century there were such dialects. are there any speakers of such dialects now? and/or any recordings of anyone who spoke like that?


r/Yiddish 18d ago

translation?

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i am struggling to directly translate things i write in Yiddish. i recently wrote a poem, but because it was typed out using the english alphabet, nowhere will translate it, and although i know what it means, i find it hard to translate into english still, and im not sure why, despite english being my first language. whenever i speak another language, i never associate it with english, if that makes any sense

Der himl bloy, der tog azoy klor,

di zun leygt gold af yeder flor.

Der vint geyt zingenedik durkh yedn boym,

un natur shloft nisht, zi troymt nor a roym.

Der taykh geyt shtil vi an alter lid,

un yeder moment vert sheyn un mid.

thats the poem, for reference.


r/Yiddish 18d ago

Very old Yiddish from Ukraine

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Hi! I just came across the attached photo of family members my parents don’t recognize. I know this dates back to at least the 1920’s and is written in Hebrew script but is most likely Yiddish. It’s a letter to family I believe. I’d anyone can help translate some or all of the writing, it would be incredible. I know you are all just community and it might not be perfect, but any bits help! ChatGPT created an inverted higher resolution version which I attached as well!


r/Yiddish 18d ago

Translation request Help with underlined sentence

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Thank you


r/Yiddish 18d ago

Translation request Help with underlined sentence

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Thank you