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How to use Yiddish in a sentence

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German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and occasionally Arabic words fly through the air.
We mess up the English language with ebonics, Spanglish, Yiddish, Tagalog, and pidgin.
Words from Romany, Shelta, Yiddish, back slang, rhyming slang and other non-standard English are interspersed with words of Italian origin.
None could speak English, only Yiddish, and they never tried to learn the language, absorb the local culture or integrate with their hosts.
Original Yiddish was written in Hebrew letters and was a mixture of Hebrew, Slavic, and German.
He has since been involved in Talmudic studies and enrolled in Yiddish courses.
And Pa, voice still honey-sweet despite his asthma, would lead the Grodner in Yiddish songs.
As the Yiddish saying goes, even the wealthiest man can't eat more than one dinner.
Other languages used in the press and in public schools included Yiddish, Swedish, and Norwegian.
In the ethnically diverse town, several dialects were spoken, and the language of the Husserl home probably was Yiddish.
From the looks of it, German, Yiddish, Japanese, and Sanskrit seem to be particularly fruitful sources of untranslatable words.
The identifiably Yiddish and Hebrew elements within his poetry serve to interrogate the homogeneity and wholeness of English.
Their programme will include Irish tunes and slow airs, some Scottish tunes and Yiddish folk music!
What do Manx, Faeroese, Gaelic, Welsh, Hebrew, Yiddish and Mohawk all share?
I'm not a believer, but Yiddish is the means for my connecting to my culture, to my heritage, to my forefathers and foremothers.
He came out, bowed down with sorrow, to settle on a bench, his voice quavering with a barely audible Yiddish lament.
Although written in Yiddish, these works are emblematically American tales.
Officially, kvetch is a Yiddish word but New Yorkers have made it their own.
To be a Yiddish poet is to enter a curiously ambiguous position between tradition and private experience.
Yiddish play after Yiddish play tumbled from his pen, most of them about contemporary people and current dilemmas.
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Peretz is one of the literary masters of to-day, but he writes in Yiddish, so the world misses his greatness.
Ink was cheap, and the epistle, in Yiddish, occupied me for many hot summer hours.
The Yiddish newspapers of the day were excellent, and my father subscribed to the best of them.
I could read while daylight lasted, if I chose, in the Yiddish.
Nor did she ever know that she had said these words in Yiddish!
It's derived from the Yiddish word mizmaze, Yiddish of course being a Germanic language.
They tell me the old spout shop is now turned into a Yiddish theatre.
She chased a strikebreaker down the street, yelling in Yiddish the word for shame.
She flourished a handbill, English on one side, Yiddish on the other.
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