The
centerpiece or highlight of this Kosher Yiddish Website is the
| Yiddish Glossary | אידישער ווערטערשאַץ |
For a list of
miscellaneous Yiddish sayings and
aphorisms (אידישע גלייכווערטלעך אוּן אויסדריקן), click
here.
For great Yiddish
sayings and
expressions learned from Rabbi Ephraim Oshry zt"l, click
here. (offsite link)
For some hilarious
true-life
Yiddish dialogs and stories that I've personally heard, including the
story about a pig in the "basement" of a shtetl outhouse, click
here.
For
some humorous Yiddish dialogs that were in common use in the pre-war
shtetl, click
here.
For a Depression-Era
song poking fun
at then President Herbert Hoover (written by my late father), click
here.
For
the
text of a humorous Stuhmer's Bread Commercial, that used to air on
Radio Station WEVD, click
here.
The
Pocket-Book Say It In Yiddish
by Weinreich contains a wealth of
useful Yiddish words, phrases, and expressions. For
my updates, revisions, and corrections to this book, click
here.
For
some off-color
Yiddish jokes (Adults
only,
please!), click here.
How
does one properly SPELL Yiddish?
| װיאַזוי דאַרף מען אויסלייגן אידישע װערטער? |
| דער „איוואָ“ און זיינע „תקנות פֿון אידישן אויסלייג“ |
| YIVO's
Spelling Conventions for Yiddish ("Takones fun Yidishn Oysleyg" |
To read an article opposed to the YIVO's whacko (IMHO) spelling conventions for Yiddish -- including a list of other relevant articles on this subject by Yudl Mark, Yisroel Shteinboim, and Kh. Sh. Kazdan in old issues of Yidisher Shprakh and Undzer Tsayt -- click here. (This article also includes a brief history of YIVO's involvement in formulating spelling rules for Yiddish.)
For the spelling conventions employed by normal,
traditional
Jews, click here -- and you will read the
spelling
recommendations of the Algemeiner Journal, a Yiddish newspaper
published weekly in New York City. Note: This article is written in
Yiddish.For a June 20th, 2008 article by
Yiddish Scholar Gennady Estraikh on Soviet Yiddish spelling
conventions, click here. Note: This
article is also written in Yiddish. How does one properly TRANSLITERATE Yiddish?
The
overwhelming
majority of Orthodox Jews and Israelis, as well as ArtScroll
Publications and the Jewish Press weekly newspaper, use a system for
transliterating Jewish terms (like Halacha, Chanukkah, Shacharit) that
is DIFFERENT from the system advocated by the YIVO. Their system is
what we call "Common Usage."
When should one use the "Common Usage" system, and when, the YIVO system? This is discussed in the Guide for Transliterating Hebrew and Yiddish Words into English. To read it, click here.
Where does one go to find out how to say something in Yiddish?
?װי זאָגט מען אויף אידיש
·Suppose you don't know how to say something in Yiddish. Where do you turn for advice? The YIVO? Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary?
·Is the Weinreich Dictionary a valid source of information for the student of Yiddish? How can one glean the abundant good in this Dictionary, while still avoiding the pitfalls of its SERIOUS shortcomings?
·The following article will give you the BEST ADVICE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE.
·The article provides the "inside story" about the writing of the Weinreich Dictionary. Read secrets never before revealed to the public.
·The article also provides a list of recommended Yiddish dictionaries, which you can use to find out how to say something in Yiddish.
Creating HTML Documents (Webpages) That Contain Yiddish Text with Nekudes
What's wrong with neologisms like "kompyuteray?"
For my analysis, click here.
To read about זאַרעצקי׳ס גראַמאַטיק -- the famous Yiddish grammar book written by Ayzik Zaretski (1891-1956), and about the dictionary of the Hebrew elements in Yiddish by Spivak and Yehoyesh (1911), click here.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has a great page of "Yiddish words and phrases used by English speakers."
Michael D. Fein of Montreal, Canada, has a large List of Yiddish Words and Expressions. Some of the spelling, as well as some of the translations used there, may leave something to be desired, but Michael's list is very comprehensive. To access Michael's List, click here.