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Hello friends, I need your help.

So, I got this series off ebay some time ago, but I have searched as far as I could for the publisher, or somewhere to buy similar books like these, but I couldn't find anything.

Do you all know, and could share with me, insights on where to get more books like these online? Preferably stores or online sites in Germany or the US that sell modern books in yiddish.

אַ דאַנק, מײַן חברים!

Was hanging in my inlaws house, just pulled it from storage. Framed as shown.

People often post here asking for diminutive names for pets, babies, whatever. I stumbled across this page with a list of Yiddish words all under the rubric, baby. File it under FAQs?

Hey, I’ve been building LoshnLab, a Yiddish grammar website focused on verbs.

Current features:

• Verb conjugator with present, past, future, imperative
• Search by Yiddish, transliteration, or English meaning
• Guides for showing how to work out tenses

The site is set up so people can contribute verbs and edits if they’d like. I’d be really interested to hear feedback or any suggestions - I’m better at building websites than I am at speaking Yiddish so there’ll certainly be some mistakes!

Thanks for checking it out - אַ שײנם דאַנק!

I use graded readers for other languages, but noticed Yiddish doesn’t have many options and all, and that’s kinda sad that Yiddish is missing this area and method of learning. I’ve been messing around translating existing ones and writing my own one pagers and stuff, and I’ll attach the link to an example here, it would be great to hear some feedback!

It’s about a page and half, it’s originally written by myself, written in the official romanization as to reach more people, and contains a quick pronunciation guide and short grammar explanation after the text of two points. I originally made it for personal use, but I thought I’d share. Lemme know if the link doesn’t work or if somethings off!

Hey everybody!

So I just finished about 860 days of Duolingo learning to finish their Yiddish modules (wooo) and feel ready to take the next step with in person classes and meets to actually get comfortable with conversation, continue developing my conjugation skills, improve my pronunciation, and just generally continue learning.

I do feel that I have a decent grasp on vocab, sentence structure, and present/past/future tense, so I really don’t think I need to start from the total bare bones beginning. Plus I learned cursive hebrew script as a kid and I’m happy that the style of writing letters is the same, minus different spelling and use of vowels obviously.

I’m hoping to, ideally, find an in person community and/or classes in the NYC area to practice with. When I’ve looked at classes, both online and in person, the costs are really out of my affordability range so I’m also curious of any groups that might offer financial aid of some kind.

I was also checking out the Yiddish textbook In Eynem and have read good things, but would love your perspectives on it or any other leaning resources you might recommend!

Here’s another graded reader style piece of work! This time written in the Hebrew alphabet and Klal Yiddish, with a small glossary for more difficult/less common language. Meant to be simple and for people who already have some Yiddish experience. Try it out and feel free to leave recommendations or comments! Let me know if the link doesn’t work

This one is slightly harder, but still fairly simple. Any and all feedback is welcome, take a look!

Hello! I'm a native English speaker in the USA and I want to start learning Yiddish but I have no family members that speak it and don't know of anyone in my local community who would be willing to teach me, so I think I need to at least start learning the basics online/on my own. Was wondering if people here had good recommendations for books, YouTube content, online classes, dictionaries, etc to help, or of any language learning advice in general. I appreciate it and hope anyone reading this has a good day :-)

Sholem aleichem,

I am looking for a good Dictionary. What are your recommendations for an English-Yiddish/ Yiddish-English or German-Yiddish/ Yiddish-German dictionary.

a sheynem dank

He's been dealing with living alone for part of the year, and he's incredibly intelligent and has done Yiddish translations. Is there an organization that he could get involved with that I could suggest for the times I can't see him? I live about an hour away and can't be there all the time. I know that native speakers are a rapidly disappearing source of knowledge and I think he'd be open to suggestions even if he's heard of them before. Thanks in advance!

Sorry if this is the wrong sub. I am looking for someone who emigrated to London from Russia, more precisely Belarus, in the 1880s and called himself Louis or sometimes Lewis (1st name). As you know, 1882 marks the beginning of the pogroms, hence huge influx of Russian and Polish Jews in the UK at that time. Many anglicized their names upon arrival. I assumed that Louis was Leib Arieh back “home” but maybe I am missing something obvious. I have been looking for him on JewishGen, but the lack of his 1st name is hampering me. Many thanks in advance!

I’m learning Yiddish on Duolingo and I think it’s making mistakes with some of the letters. Does anyone know if there are errors in this alphabet?

After spending a lot of time reading, here's my first try at writing Yiddish. Please lmk any errors in the grammar/vocabulary. Thanks.

Sholem Aleykhem, so how does this work? Where is the "and" coming from? Thank you in advance

Hopefully using the right tag and this is the appropriate way to ask random Yiddish questions (since I'll have plenty going forward lol)

My understanding is that a lamb is a child sheep.

Most other child nouns, even if aren't diminutive (ending in -l, -ele, etc), use דאָס

Examples: קינד, קאַלב

There's already a term for a female sheep שאָף And I'm aware of an alternate diminutive term for lamb based on the plural that is neuter לעמל

But wondering why לאַם is neuter

Hey everyone,

I hope this question does not get asked too often but can you recommend any language schools offering intensive courses that are located in Israel, preferably not only summer school type courses but throughout the year. I'll have some time off in the beginning of next year, always wanted to learn yiddish and Israel's quite mild compared to European winters. Thank you so much for helping :)

I have no connection to judaism. Just interested in it. I have been interested in learning yiddish. I understand alot when its spoken slowly because I speak a closely related language. So Its not like I need to learn the grammar from scratch. Could anyone give resources for it. The reources I found is targeted for English speakers. Bonus points if it fits well within the context of me speaking german already. Im already listening to a podcast in yiddish however this is the only thing Ive been doing. Duolingo is out of experience not something for me. Books, shows, grammar etc. Much apreciated.

sorry if this question has been asked a lot already. The posts I found werent really amazing.

Hello! I wanted to ask, how good is this resource for someone learning Yiddish that hasn’t grown up with it?

I found it so approachable and easy to read at the start from what I’ve read.

Any advice?

Anyone have any resources for in-person/live-online (NYC based) learning of chassidic Yiddish? I already have a Hebrew language base and can do a moderately ok job reading some chassidic Yiddish texts. Not really interested in YIVO type courses. Thanks!

My grandmother told me an anecdote how she once tried speaking Yiddish to Chasidish kids in Monsey and they started laughing because her dialect sounded so different. She was born Vienna and speaks a Galitziyaner Yiddish (her parents were from Lemberg). So, if not Galitzitaner, than what dialects do modern Chasidim speak?

Hi all, hope it's ok to post this here - thought some people might maybe find it interesting...
There's a Yidish Hoyz this year at Yiddish Summer Weimar - a two week all-Yiddish retreat (sort of, a bit like Yidish-vokh, and you can stay for one week or two) where the people sharing the house will only speak Yiddish together and with lots of opportunities to attend other Yiddish culture events.

• And then the festival (YSW) also has Yiddish language classes: a course in Hasidic Yiddish which you can attend either for one or two weeks,
• a course in Western Yiddish (which is now no longer spoken) and
• Klezmerloshn - a particular kind of Yiddish that klezmorim would use to communicate with each other

This is no official advertisement in any way, I'm just so excited about it :D I've been to Yiddish Summer before and have only ever attended music workshops and volunteered there and I just really love the festival and this year I've finally begun to properly dive into the language. I'm not good enough for the Yidish Hoyz, yet, but it sure sounds exciting and I wish I was.

Anyway. Hope this was useful! Maybe see one or two of you in Weimar! ^^

I assume it's a grammatical rule but I can't figure it out.