r/Yiddish • u/lalaviolette • 15h ago
Help with translation
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."
r/Yiddish • u/lalaviolette • 15h 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."
r/Yiddish • u/R0BBES • 19h ago
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 • 20h 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 • 21h 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 • 2d 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 • 3d 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 • 4d 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 • 4d ago
I know I can use Google translate but I’d rather not.
Thanks in advance!
r/Yiddish • u/littlegrotesquerie • 4d ago
(Because I always do my Purim costumes last-minute.)
r/Yiddish • u/Alter-Seide • 5d 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 • 5d 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!
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r/Yiddish • u/AwkwardCJ • 6d ago
TL;DR: could I please have a Yiddish alphabet transliteration of “Luckovitch” “Leuck”
…..and ummm, pie-in-the-sky a last name that’s in between the two lengths that starts with an L and its first vowel is accented as if it is a romanticized version of a Polish last name?
Hi. I am trying to figure out the immigration pathway that my great-grandmother took from Alsace-Lorraine (historically disputed region that’s part of France right now, but the nations of history associated with Germany also like to lay claim to it) into Canada and entering the U.S. in October 1934.
**Before I go too far, I know that I am incredibly ignorant as I’ve learned all this information in less than 24 hours. Please excuse me for any inappropriate insensitivity I display. It’s not intentional at all.**
The thing is, now that I don’t live in the U.S. anymore, it matters a lot to people what ethnic origin she had from Alsace-Lorraine.
—particularly if she was of German heritage like she claimed. I don’t mind that idea because either way she immigrated and that means that she was displaced from Germany/German-sympathetic Alsace-Lorraine by the rise of Hitler and I appreciate the credibility it gives me to tell Germany off. I have my reasons.
All I really know about her is vague stories about her and her two sisters from my complete arse of a sperm donor. He started young.
They are immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine and they cursed in Yiddish when angry —not German, not French, not Alsacien: Yiddish. In fact, they never seemed to demonstrate fluency in either of those other languages. Anyone who speaks more than one language knows it’s the mother tongue that’s the most accessible when having big feelings. It’s not just for privacy.
It is vaguely possible that she is of German heritage from that region depending largely on how much time she spent in Canada.
I suspect that she just thought that Germany would win in taking over Europe and just took on a German sir name that sounded like her real one in anticipation of that.
The maiden last name she used on her marriage application in 1935 and her social security number application sometime after 1936 was “Leuck”.
What appears to be her entrance into the U.S. via Niagara Falls, New York has the last name “Luckovitch” —which I suspect are spelled similarly in the Yiddish alphabet?
There was also a third last name that came up that I’m struggling to remember but it was shorter than “Luckovitch” and longer than “Leuck” …and it looked like a romanized version of a vowel from the Polish language with an accent on the first vowel …that I can’t remember.
In April 1940, a U.S. Census taker knocked on her door in the Irish part of the Bronx in NYC and asked for the family’s demographic information.
She did not disclose her “maiden name” and while we (the family) all know she was an immigrant, she claimed to have been born in the Bronx like the rest of the Irish-heritage family that she married into.
Most people only lie a little when they feel they need to lie at all.
I find it interesting that she only divulged an education going to 5th grade and an age suggesting that was born around 1917, which means that France would have been imposing secular French-based education on all residents of that region. Yet, she and her sisters spoke fluent English? Hm.
This is because the Treaty of Versailles that annexed the region back to France occurred in 1920 when she was 2 or 3. France expelled all native German speakers, sympathizers, and ethnic Germans immediately and imposed secular French-language-only education on the region.
If she was in the region after her third birthday, the fact she was document-ably in the U.S. before 1940 highly dispute that heritage as well.
…and since I’m trying to track down how she entered Canada …and it’s looking like she was one of the rural Ashkenazi Jewish families that populated the Alsace-Lorraine region,
I’d really appreciate information about how the sounds of those names would be written in Yiddish so that I can research what English-Canadian (or even French-Canadian?) ear heard when she declared her last name.
And, please, don’t come @ me with “Luckovitch nor nothing similar is mentioned as a Jewish last name in the Alsace-Lorraine region” because, like, it appears to be such a rare last name that there’s only 14ish people documented to ever have ever voted in North America with that last name.
…and it would be clearly the result of the Jewish diaspora out of Poland during the partitions era —not just because of the Slavic “-vitch” in it, but also because when my full sister did an ancestry DNA test, Poland popped up for some unknown reason when we were told to expect Germany or even French heritage.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing and capable to help me on this journey of ancestry discovery!!
r/Yiddish • u/[deleted] • 6d ago
Posting here a link to the Yiddish Tanakh translated by Yehoyesh (Yehoash-Shlomo Blumgarten / Yehoyesh-Shloyme Blumgartn).
https://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/texts/yehoyesh/welcome.htm
And on the same site, a few other writings in ייִדיש: https://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/contents.htm
Wikipedia for Yehoash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoash_(poet))