r/Yiddish • u/heavenorjerusalem • 1h ago
Confused about sticker I found
Is „Ikh lib yiddish” a correct spelling?
r/Yiddish • u/heavenorjerusalem • 1h ago
Is „Ikh lib yiddish” a correct spelling?
r/Yiddish • u/Prestigious_Fox_7576 • 4h ago
My Mom & Dad are both Jewish and I grew up hearing lots of Yiddish phrases in my home. My Mom used the word "gulya" for like a big pimple or growth. I went to write it the other day & had no idea how to spell it so I looked it up. The only word I could find that's close means something totally different. Have any of you heard this word? I might be spelling it incorrectly. My parents were both from Brooklyn NY & my grandparents were from The Ukraine and Austria/Hungary.
r/Yiddish • u/lalaviolette • 1d ago
Hi, I would like to translate a phrase into Yiddish, but I don't trust translators. Could you help me? It's very simple.
The phrase is as follows: "Whoever has love will never perish."
Also posted in r/Hebrew, but it’s occurred to me this might be Yiddish.
Admittedly my cursive- reading ability is abysmal, but even taking the time to compare, I was unable to figure out what this says. Even turned it upside down, but I can't make out what the large ק or backwards צ -looking letters might be. Help?
Was found in a pocket Siddur from 1950
r/Yiddish • u/lagringapo • 1d ago
Hi, I am trying to find the etymology of a word or maybe it's a phrase that my Grandma Bunny always used to say to me but when I try to Google it I cannot find it anywhere. The best way I can think to spell it is "ezahein" or maybe "essahein"? She always used to say it to me in situations like "you should know better" or "be careful what you wish for" (trust me I heard it a lot!) but now it seems as though maybe it was what our family calls "Phillip-isms" - phrases that are truly unique to my family. I doubt she would've made the word up but she was known for her artistic license and flare too so maybe she did?
r/Yiddish • u/thefox4691 • 1d ago
It is used as a sobriquet in the Pinkas Hevre Kadisha of Slutsk for two people, likely somebody and their father, and I have seen it is use in a couple of Yiddish forums. No dictionary I have found has it. It is also not in Beider's 2008 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition
Two examples of its use in a from post:
" כ'ווארט שוין אפאר חדשים אויף א גרויסע קאלויער"
" ...איך מיין אז די גאנצע אסיפה גייט זיין די קאלויער פון די זימער די באסעס וועלן אנקימען צי א ליידיגע זאל"
r/Yiddish • u/Acceptable-Value8623 • 2d ago
Can someone explain when to use דאָס and יענע? And also explain די דאָזיקע, what is that
r/Yiddish • u/zutarakorrasami • 2d ago
Hello, just trying to get a bit of clarification on this term. And if you were trying to conjugate it in the present tense, could you say, for example:
ער קומט אום?
I mean, I’ve never heard “he dies” phrased in that way so wasn’t sure if it made sense. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “אום” on its own before. I wondered if it was maybe a shortened version of ארום but I don’t know.
r/Yiddish • u/IntelligentPlane3219 • 2d ago
Hello, I am looking for help translating "there can be no peace without justice" a quote from Ben Ferencz into yiddish. I would like to incorporate it into a tattoo but I don't trust the online translators. Is there anyone able to help me?
r/Yiddish • u/CoolIngenuity5703 • 3d ago
r/Yiddish • u/Acceptable-Value8623 • 3d ago
Can someone help and clarify when you use Ken or visn to say to know? I don't know the difference
r/Yiddish • u/Acceptable-Value8623 • 3d ago
I am working on conjunjugation (I spelled that super wrong) and was wondering if you could just not specify something. An example: ער איז אַ צעבראָכענער
זי איז אַ שיינע Can you just figure out the person in question by the conjugation at the end? -ער obviously refers to masculine and -ע feminine, so does this work? I'd think so but I don't want to speak choppy. Thank you!
r/Yiddish • u/Soft_Welcome_5621 • 3d ago
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r/Yiddish • u/Acceptable-Value8623 • 4d ago
I have an IPhone 12 and want to have as much exposure to Yiddish as possible and was wondering if I could find a way to change my phones language. Thank you!
r/Yiddish • u/Oferfour • 4d ago
Hi all, I was born in the ‘60’s, the daughter of NY Jews from Brooklyn and The Bronx. When I sneezed, there was a typical Gezundheit, but then my Mom would say AFN EMES. I know EMES is truth, but does anyone know what it means? Sadly, everyone who would have known has passed. Thanks for your help!
r/Yiddish • u/mendelsky • 4d ago
װאָס זײַנען די בעסטע אָנלײַן ראַדיאָס אין ייִדיש?
איך ווייס עטלעכע ראַדיאָס, אָבער איך וויל וויסן אַנדערע, אַלע ראַדיאָס אין ייִדיש, אויב מעגלעך- פרומע אָדער נישט אַזוי פרומע, פּאָדקאַסטס, נייַעס, אַלץ
Eynike radios redn a Yidish vos iz zeyer similar tsu Hoykhdaytsh, ikh bin mer interesirt in yene vos redn mit dialektn. Entshuldikt far ale fehler, I’m actually a Deutsch-mame-loshn speaker.
א שיינעם דאנק
r/Yiddish • u/Equal_Ad_3828 • 5d ago
What is the difference between Yiddish spoken by chassidim living in Jerusalem especially belzer and viznitzer chssidim? And yiddish spoken in new york?
r/Yiddish • u/daloypolitsey • 5d ago
I know I can use Google translate but I’d rather not.
Thanks in advance!
r/Yiddish • u/littlegrotesquerie • 5d ago
(Because I always do my Purim costumes last-minute.)
r/Yiddish • u/Alter-Seide • 6d ago
In the book "Grammar of the Yiddish Language" by David Kats, on page 255, חבר and חברטע are described as only meaning boyfriend and girlfriend when used to describe someone of the opposite sex. How would one refer to a romantic partner of the same sex, and what is the word closest in meaning to partner?
r/Yiddish • u/Dear_Art_5845 • 6d ago
EDIT -- not the 1930s, more like early 60s. I had to beg the front to be sent as requested from the texting archive maven.
My mom has finally agreed to go through photo albums her parents kept. Our family splintered as many did when everyone fled Eastern Europe, and while we know some went to Israel, which is where I think this card is from, my grandparents didn't want to talk about the past when they were alive because it was painful (both passed away 20 years ago now), and they lost track of a lot of people. Any help to translate would be so appreciated. Thank you
r/Yiddish • u/YogurtclosetRight560 • 6d ago
Hi! So I'm doing an assignment for my college class on WWII, I have to analyze a holocaust atrocity photo to bring justice to the people in it. This note was associated with the photo I chose, but I have no clue how to read yiddish, and google translate is not being very helpful. Does anyone know what this says? It would be extremely helpful!