Yiddish songs with Russian explanations | Olga speaking Russian and Yiddish | Wikitongues
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2022
- Olga sings in Yiddish, a Jewish diaspora language, and explains the songs in Russian. Yiddish emerged about 800 years ago from contact between Hebrew and Germanic and Slavic languages.
More from Wikipedia: "Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש, Yidish-Taytsh, lit. ' Judaeo-German') is a High German-derived language historically spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic, as well as Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. Yiddish writing uses the Hebrew alphabet. As of the 1990s, there were around 1.5-2 million speakers of Yiddish, mostly Hasidic and Haredi Jews. The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknaz, "language of Ashkenaz") or טײַטש (taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, lit. 'mother tongue'), distinguishing it from לשון־קודש (loshn koydesh, "holy tongue"), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. The term "Yiddish", short for Yidish Taitsh ("Jewish German"), did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. In the late 19th and into the 20th century, the language was more commonly called "Jewish", especially in non-Jewish contexts, but "Yiddish" is again the more common designation today. Modern Yiddish has two major forms. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. It includes Southeastern (Ukrainian-Romanian), Mideastern (Polish-Galician-Eastern Hungarian), and Northeastern (Lithuanian-Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (Swiss-Alsatian-Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Netherlandic-Northern German) dialects. Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide; it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic yeshivas. The term "Yiddish" is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with "Jewish", to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit ("Ashkenazi culture"; for example, Yiddish cooking and "Yiddish music" - klezmer). Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11-13 million speakers of Yiddish among 17 million Jews worldwide. 85% of the approximately 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish both among survivors and among Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). However, the number of Yiddish-speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities."
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Hi i see there is no afrikaans video i am willing to help i am a south african and i can speak afrikaans and we have 11 oficial languages
You're old videos have no captions and the link you've given to them doesn't work anymore.
Wonderful. Like listening to my own grandmother singing. Thank you, Madame.
I’ve been learning Russian for a few years and began learning Yiddish recently, so thank you for this!!
Oh my goodness!
I know, I’m kinda late, but I’m Russian with German roots and can speak both Russian and German more or less fluently, so I understand nearly everything of what she sings. I’m just speechless, it’s wonderful ❤
pure joy, thank you!
Боже это невероятно!
Bravo 💕
I recognise some of these songs: Papirosn and Kinderyorn
God bless
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i wanted to do that too
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Love this ❤️✡️
The woman seems to be originally from Ukraine judging by her Russian accent. Her Yiddish sounded very interesting.
As a Russian speaker I didn’t hear a hint of Ukrainian
My grandpa is from Zhytomyr Oblast’ and his accent is very similar
I love how I understand Yiddish as a German-speaker
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A zeyr sheyne nign.
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Does anyone know the name of the first song?
I believe woman mentions the name of the first song “Do you want it or not” just before singing (1:26). But maybe just asking someone if he wants to listen ))
@@ipvitk she's just asking the interviewer
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Wow! I had no idea that Yiddish sounds like German.
A German dialect with Hebrew script, I always thought it was really cool and unique for that :)
There never was contact between Hebrew and Germanic / Slavic languages. People converted to judaism, that's it. That is enough to hebraise a language.
The fact that most Ashkenazi Jews have haplogroup J, which is Middle Eastern, disproves your thesis. Ashkenazi Jews have Middle Eastern paternal heritage and European maternal heritage.
The first two sentences are two completely different arguments which have little to do with each other. If you are suggesting that Ashkenazim are essentially German/Slavic converts to Judaism, you're making a claim that's at odds with decades of research in population genetics (and no, not even those Elhaik et. al. papers support this idea.)
You don't even need to look at any academic papers to confirm this. That Ashkenazim cluster autosomally together with Sephardim and Mediterranean populations and nowhere near Northeastern or Central Europeans is completely uncontroversial (read any of the serious genomics bloggers... dienekes, khan, etc.)
Coe's point is a little understated in this context; the overwhelming majority of that "european heritage" comes from the Mediterranean anyways-- there's little shared ancestry with northern europeans.
Otherwise, the first idea that there was no direct contact between those languages is (or at least was until recently) more-or-less the mainstream view: Weinrich proposed that the Semitic elements of Hebrew entered Hebrew purely through studying religious texts. Personally, I disagree with this and find Dovid Katz' theory of continual transmission more compelling (there's a good tablet article summarizing his this along with competing linguists' views, if you're interested). But in any case, this fact doesn't have any implications about the ancestry of Jews. Language ≠ Genetics (look at Hungarians, for example).
@@coe3408 This is a bit of an oversimplification, imho. There are a non-insignificant amount of Ashkenazim with Middle Eastern maternal haplogroups too.
people will lie for money. anyone that has spent some time around humans and universities knows how research gets funded. today, we are talking of trans kids, safe and effective covid vaccines and global warming.
I am sorry that you have no knowledge on these issues. Both of your statements are false and I feel that if you learn more, you would become a better person.
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Yes.