YIDDISH: Part One
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2014
- Yiddish. It's a culturally rich language shared by the seniors of the Los Angeles Jewish Home. We made a special video to share our seniors’ thoughts on the meanings of our favorite Yiddish words. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it!
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I hope there will be many more of these ! I love Yiddish and we need to keep it alive.
Memories as a child on a warm summer night in our NY apartment listening to my Bube, my mother and aunts having conversations in Yiddish as I drifted off to sleep
I’m not even Jewish and I know a lot of these. My German family used all of these except schvitz. That one was new for me. Yiddish is so interesting and just downright neat. I hope the Jewish community continues to keep it alive for generations to come.
Schwitzen (to sweat) / schwitz (sweat) is a standard German word. For Yiddish the u is replaced by a v but the pronunciation stays the same
@@RichardSmith-ky8wj but in Yiddish it also means to brag/show off and in German it doesn't have that meaning.
One of the things I loved about living on "South Beach" in the late 1970s was the large community of older Jews who spoke Yiddish. It's such a wonderfully expressive language.
Love all the elders of my community, I've learnt a lot from them including the wonderful language of Yiddish. You're right it is delightfully expressive. You're a amoretz faygala shmendrik!
It is sad to watch as Yiddish disappears as a language. So expressive... So inventive....
Gesmacht!
Bob Harris we're doing our best to make sure these YIDDISH words don't get lost!
My father is fluent in Yiddish but my dad wouldn't teach my sister and me because he saw Yiddish as the language of the Jewish ghettos. Now he tries to teach me but it's too late. I know expressions and curses (actual curses like "May your head grow like a turnip in the earth.") but that's about it.
Yiddish has been suppressed by the Zionists in favor of hebrew.
It is, indeed, sad. Languages like this often slowly fades away based on the "stronger' language/s, which is backed by countries/nations with strong economies and governments. It's safe to say that English is practically the "standard" language of the world, at least, it's the language of business and of the skies; you need to learn English if you want to be an airplane pilot anywhere in the world. Well, that's what I've been told. Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt to learn or relearn these types of "dying" languages. Learning any language can help the brain and the mind stay healthy and sharp.
-Have a nice day.
no one needs it anymore jews can use hebrew.
Those two ladies are just precious.When I was living at an assisted living facility in Coos Bay,Oregon,I met two ladies from New York who were Jewish.Anne,the older of the two,was always ciorrecting me on my Yddish.She is now about 98 years old.Ruth was the other one.I started learning it about 30 years ago.Ruth,sadly,passed away not long after I left there.I just adored her.
I miss my grandparents and their friends. I used to get such a big kick out of them as they speak amongst each other in Yiddish in front of us when they didn't want us to know what they were saying. But they taught us some words too. LOL!
My first languge, the one they used was Polish and Belarus that I only learned a few words, but as a kid it made learning English very easy, so many words are very close to English, but if you don't use it, you lose it, which is sad, but everyone thinks your a Newyorker, what they don't know is its yiddish there hearing
jews and arabs are very culturally similar. i am of arab background and i always found jewish communities to very similar. my best friend is jewish and i think his family behave very similar to mines. they are both family oriented, love to cook for others, similar folk dance and songs, etc. why the fighting between the two groups? never understood that. every arab needs a jewish friend and every jew needs an arab friend. we would surprise each other how much alike we are.
Thank you!
There's no fighting it's made up israeli propaganda other than that lots of areas are really antisemitic and ethnically cleansed nearly the entire population in middle eastern countries last century but that trope is made up
Arabs and Ashkenazi are not similar
You could ask the same why arabs fight other arabs too when they are so similar...
@@noamto what
As a German with Jewish ancestry I revelled in their discriptions... I can so much relate to the feelings expressed with these words :-D Wonderful!
I learnt Yiddish as a child from my parents; they spoke Yiddish when they did want to talk in secret so I will not know what they talked about. Now I am 86 y.o. and live in a neighbor county of San Diego.
Emanuel Maurice Winocur, Maziltov!
I live in Holland and speak Dutch and German but speak nor understand any Yiddish, or so I thought.... But for some reason, I literally knew every Yiddish word.
Because yiddish is not a Semitic middle Eastern language... Yiddish is the language of the European converts
@@NubiansNapata ok
@@NubiansNapata The language is based on Medieval German. About the rest of your statement: you probably come from a place, where European history is not being taught.
@@JadeDAngelo I'm north African from London....my point still stands.. Yiddish is not semetic
@@NubiansNapata it has Semitic parts and influence, like you saw yourself in the video that some of the words were Semitic. And those were not converts. Arabic on the other hand...
Love Yiddish my mother spoke it all the time when I was a kid
❤ I could listen to them all day and night....beautiful people.
I am Asian married to a Jewish man and listening to all these ladies and gentlemen talking takes me back to the days when I hung around my husband’s dad and mom’s family. They spoke American English pepper with lots of Yiddish. I didn’t understand at first till my mother in law gave me a book call The Joy of Yiddish. I poured over the book and learned so many wonderful words and I was able to follow their conversation easily after that. They have since passed and I really miss those times with them. They are so sarcastic but so hilarious. 💞💖💕❤️
It's funny, Schmuck in German (the language Yiddish is derived from) means jewelry. So when they called some one a schmuck it was originally sarcastic.
there is also the expression "Tachshit" that means a piece of jewelry in Hebrew, has the same meaning- a person that is anything but precious lol... good to know!
Well actually the same word is also used as an insult in German. Although we say "Schmock" not "Schmuck" because as you said that's jewelery.
Dikla Rom
not tachshit, tachsheet.
interesting...
Melvin Dukowski Jews talking shit behind peoples back?? No wayyy
Bring back Yiddish and interview my mother Esther Weiss at the Jewish Home...!
Half my family is Jewish and I knew the vast majority of these words... I use a lot of them.... and no one but my mother understands. I wish i had more Jews to speak Yiddish to!
Lmao 🤣 it's actually easier picking up more Yiddish then I thought it would be . I'm trying to learn more about my family history .
zaftig literally means "juicy" which definition conveys its proper complimentary sense. . .
Also, it can be used to describe good meat - I guess that's where the use with women came from (no disrespect intended).
Absolutely wonderful! I'm kvelling all over
This reminds me of "The Nanny"!
I am a gentile...but i always found Yiddish to be an interesting and expressive language. The words just sound inherently funny!
"Gentile" ew
@@user-po9iy3pk2y Okay Schmendrik!
I love this stuff deep down inside. My father told me that during WWII, my grandfather changed his last name to Anderson. He doesn't remember what his original last name was but that it was Jewish. Frank Anderson -- my grandfather -- didn't want to be captured by the Germans with a Jewish last name! Smart man but now I want to know about my geshmak history.
Many thinks is has different meaning....it is dependent when and to what you using. Yes, it is unusually language, but is a beautiful one.🌹👍
And for anyone who is curious, the literal translation for Zaftig, is from the German for "Juicy"!
Steve Bachman saftig
Steve Bachman , Danke'
Ahh. Thought it was
Beautiful language!
Excellent videoclip of understanding & speaking Yiddish !
oh wow my father would say at times when I was growing up. his father side is from Poland and west of lviv and spoke this I learned in genealogy. thanks for bring back memories now I will teach my son
I lived in Germany for 15 years and was very fluent in German. Today, I still understand quite a bit of it. When I first came back to the U.S., I heard two women speaking Yiddish. I recognized German words and approached them. When I asked them in German if they were German, they seemed to be quite afraid and left quickly. At the time, I didn't know about Yiddish. Now, when I hear it, I still recognize the German words...but I don't know what the other words mean.
brings back memories and smiles!
Loved this video! I came across the word Yiddish while I was reading the dictionary this morning; I decided to UA-cam it so I could hear what it sounds like compared to German, it just made my whole morning! It is absolutely beautiful, and the entire time I had a smile on my face! Seeing the perfectness and beauty of our different cultures and generations is such an awesome thing! How precious.
Love this! Great fun!
LOVE IT!
I was brought up being taught that a mensch is a nice Jewish boy.
To schvitz is to sweat.
Tuchas is your backside
I can't remember what other ones they went through on the video but it was adorable!
I loved every minute....made me smile and remember my bobes un zeides....thank you so much...
Dear Sir or Madam,
Good day.
It is my pleasure and honor to send this letter to you.
I would like to give you some pictures and hopefully you can provide me with some information.
This manuscript dates back to the Ottoman period and is written in ancient Hebrew. I am looking for someone who translates the language and extracts a certificate from it. If possible, publish it in one of your opening articles and be part of your group.
Thank you very much for the respect, appreciation and fruitful work of mankind.
Best Regards
Saad Almuhairi
+971509353343
Email:
saadbusiness16@gmail.com
or
saad.lucky@thescroll.me
click this link:
saadscroll.business.site/
@@saadalmuhairi3212 ?
@@user-po9iy3pk2y yes can I help you ?
Loved THIS!
Love it!
This is great!
They are adorable!
liked it a lot. Learned a lot and I have some new words now. People were just great
Dear Sir or Madam,
Good day.
It is my pleasure and honor to send this letter to you.
I would like to give you some pictures and hopefully you can provide me with some information.
This manuscript dates back to the Ottoman period and is written in ancient Hebrew. I am looking for someone who translates the language and extracts a certificate from it. If possible, publish it in one of your opening articles and be part of your group.
Thank you very much for the respect, appreciation and fruitful work of mankind.
Best Regards
Saad Almuhairi
+971509353343
Email:
saadbusiness16@gmail.com
or
saad.lucky@thescroll.me
click this link:
saadscroll.business.site/
Thank you very much and I agree!
Lol love it 💗 there very cute couple
I grew up with this language. I wonder which countries those folks with the accents came from.
Oy so cute!!! I love these people. Something about Jewish people..especially elders...makes feel so warm inside.
A lot of similarities with German 😊 loved these words!
I once worked for a Jewish family owned business. One little guy there taught me several Yiddish words-they just have a way of expressing the exact things you want to say by some type of emotional magic it seems. According to this shiksa anyway. Rest in peace Shlomo (Saul)
I'm from south east Germany and understood everything.
I’m laughing so hard my Schmekle hurts
Oy omg this is like my whole neighborhood in Chicago Lol this is so Cute and Funny
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen : I love Yiddish and for me it is not at all difficult or strange, I can understand almost all of it, it is so similar to my Swiss Dialect and I rather find it strange, that some people cannot understand a single word. Hope Yiddish survives.!! Bless you all
Great vid! I could plotz!
these people literally look like people that I see from my Greek church every Sunday. I'm not even joking you they look exactly the same
+Sophia Kopasakis I've often marveled, when looking at a person here and there, that when they open their mouths, they could be anyone.
+Sophia Kopasakis you sure sure?
+Dave Kent 100% positive
Sophia Kopasakis Ashkenazi Jews and Greeks are genetically similar, as are Jews and other Mediterranean peoples.
Maxwell Greene really??? Explains why people sometimes think I'm Jewish
Add ferschnoshked; mazel and dreykop-- all very useful Yiddish words.
Thanks Mark! We might just use those words in the next installment of YIDDISH! Happy Holy Days!
sounds like german with a twist of originality ! like when you speak german and english and then make a combination of both. love it !
it has far more German to it than English. The only thing I find confusing: while many words are literally the same in Standard German the transliteration used in the US (and in this video) is based on English and creates therefore a word which looks different at the first glance.
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my Mother and Bubby used to speak Yiddish to keep what they were saying a secret from me. I feel very strongly that by not raising me to speak both Yiddish and English at the same time (like my mother and her two sisters were raised) that my heritage was stolen from me. Americanization is okay, but not at the expense of my heritage.
So go live in a Jewish community and learn Yiddish. You'll get back what you feel you lost. Duolingo has Yiddish now.
@@morehn Thanks
@@FreyaF... I grew up in Riverdale, so not the old Bronx, but I feel the same way. I am Orthodox, so I get a lot of Yiddish in my community, but my family didn't keep it up or teach it to me. I've felt like they left me hanging, in a way.
@@morehn I'm Reform and Secular... I've never kept Kosher but when I was 13 I did have a Bas Mitzvah. Even though I didn't speak/read/write/understand one word of Hebrew. I learned the Hebrew words I had to recite phonetically so it didn't feel right to me, though my heart has always been that of a true blue ✡ Jew(ess)... I FEEL Jewish. I loved hearing Yiddish being spoken by those wonderful people in the video. And I was amazed (and very proud) that I knew almost all the Yiddish words they spoke. I grew up on Olinville Avenue between Allerton Ave and Pelham Pkwy. What was a main thoroughfare that you grew up near? I'm 63 and I graduated 🎓 from P.S. 96 in 1967. How about you?
@@FreyaF... cool. I was on Arlington Avenue, which was I think off of 256th. The house was on the other side of a Catholic school schoolyard, but Howard Jones of IDT bought those homes and made apartments out of them. I moved to Brooklyn for 1st grade and then to Monsey, where I am now. I went to SAR for nursery. I went to Rabbi Avi Weiss's Hebrew Institute of Riverdale for those years. I don't know the Pelham Parkway area, but I know some people who grew up there. I'm 35 now and have been learning Yiddish with Duolingo sand I watch some rabbinic lectures in Yiddish, trying to pick up some, especially when they have subtitles.
Do you live in a Jewish community? Have you tried to reclaim your heritage?
A mench is who: kind, respektble by everyone, honest, helpful then they say : he is a mench.
Sveetz is: when people talking a lot about how they are successful, how they did this or this, how he is all that.
And sveetz is: when you sveetz 😊
In Yiddish....many words have dable meaning. This is a beauty of the language. 🌹
I knew most of the words as my parents were from Germany and were religious jews. Some words were just pronounced differently. However the word kvell is not used in german. Henry kissinger's mother was being interviewed by someone and asked her if she kvells about her son ( she did not understand what he meant ). These people are so cute
Haha Yiddish sounds really just like a German dialect it's really funny for me :)
That's because it is one
@@RichardSmith-ky8wj yes and no, spoken it sounds like dialect, but it has it's own letters and spelling system.
thank you so much, vat a groyse mitziah
I certainly have tuchus, what to do, live
Sweet. ✡️♥️🥰
A shayne dank!
The ironic thing is that they belong to the generation that helped it disappear. These are the ones that would speak it among themselves and not teach it to their kids so that their kids didn’t understand what they were saying. Now, they don’t want it to be forgotten or lost but, what do you think is going to happen when you don’t teach it to your kids? It doesn’t get passed down in the language dies.
Happy Social Media Day! In honor of #SMDay, we're throwing it back to a viral video that debuted nearly one year ago - YIDDISH. Enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/gC5YGDKUEeM/v-deo.html
Sholom my friend
l grew up in London, Jews and Gentiles we all mixed together socially and were friendly...we leaned Yiddish words ( a mix of Herbrew and German) and it was no big deal...we were all kids and kids aren't racists, that's the point...they learn that from their parents...!
Yiddish is not Hebrew its a German language...yiddish is not Semitic
@@NubiansNapata Its a German based language with Hebrew words Aramaic words and slavic words mixed with it. So, she wasnt wrong in what she said.
@@inconnu4961 Yiddish is a Germanic language it's not semetic
My bubba used to call me a schmuck. 😄
I first heard of Yiddish when I was a kid. Specifically a kids book about antisemitism where a kid can speak Yiddish and is made fun of for both speaking Yiddish and being ethnicity Jewish.
I honestly thought that it were related to Hebrew for a while
Leeds in England has a good sized Jewish community.. I served as a Police Officer there in 1967, and we called thieves "Ganifs'". 40 Years later I learned it is Yiddish for 'thief'..
Geshmak is delicious and pleasurable
Its almost like german, but in usa the jewish people that speak yiddish mixed it with english words. Very interesting
One thing I find confusing: while many words are literally the same in Standard German the transliteration used in the US (and in this video) is based on English and creates therefore a word which looks different at the first glance.
I'd really like an in depth of "shyster" (I probably spelled that wrong) I'm thinking dodgy business man type or untrustworthy or something on those lines dunno would love to hear from elders and betters.
Thanks for the suggestion Carl! You never know, "Shyster" might show up in another installment! ;)
From seeing movies and comedians, I would call a "Shyster" a loan shark, e.g. a money lender of questionable morals and ethics.
I have heard the moniker "Shyster" used when speaking about an unscrupulous lawyer.
Shyster isn't a Yiddish word.
גאר גאר גישמאק!!
Zaftig! I am zaftig! Yay!
I like you already.
I had a close friend growing up who was Jewish and she and her
parents spoke fluent Yiddish I loved it. I want to learn it but I don't
know why. I took Spanish in college. Mazoultoff ! Oye vey.
Anyone who's ever watched Rugrats knows that the yiddish word for an ass is "shmegege!"
Shmegege is a person who does stupid things. Schlemiel is the stupid person. I wasn't sure if you were teasing about not knowing the difference between what you call a person or a tush but I figured what the hell. :)
contessakitty Nah man! Have you not see the Rugrats?! Boris and Minka! She says, "Boris, did you hurt your shmegege?" I'm sure there's a video of it somewhere on youtube!
Used in a sentence, "kish Mir en tuches, you shmeggegeh".
Hahahaha good memory
Why..
Oy! THANK YOU. 8-)
Who knows Yiddish song: ih un der in de un mir we aklanki un a ter, kezele- feigele main /and etc./?
Transportation: l am with out you and with out me....it is like a door with out
the iron holders.
This used to sing my bobe
/avalashulem/ it is mean rest in peace.
Hey guys..... what’s a falasha?
For those interested, during the mid 16th century, Pope Paul ordered for Jews living in papally controlled areas of Rome had to wear the Star of David and moved them inside of ghettos. The Jews who fled to Poland were called Ashkenazim ("Germans"). The latter developed a dialect that combined German and Hebrew. Thus, Yiddish was born.
Thanks for the history lesson. But the account leaves me to wonder why there would not be more Italian words incorporated into Yiddish.
these words are mostly german and share similar meanings,or the same.
Can anyone help me and tell me how chaim the Hebrew word for life is pronounced in yiddish and hebrew?
Lebn in Yiddish
And Chaim in Hebrew
The first installment of the Los Angeles Jewish Home's highly anticipated short film series YIDDISH has finally been released! Click the link below to watch it now!
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I am German and I understand a lot of these words because sound and meaning are close to German. In fact I think that yiddish is based on German. Which shows that the Jews were widespread in Germany and they were and are part of our culture.
When shall we see PartTwo, please?
Hi George, Part Two will be released on September 24th
Los Angeles Jewish Home Rosh Hashana? Perfect!
Los Angeles Jewish Home Thank you! WUNDERBAR!!!
Thanks George Pope and *****!
at the end she said et soll nisch verloren gayn, in german it is es soll nicht verloren gehen ... almost the same ...great video
"saftig" in Swedish means juicy as in a big steak or a big fruit or a curvy woman.
Geshmak really means taste. A mensh mit geshmak. Is a person with good taste.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Good day.
It is my pleasure and honor to send this letter to you.
I would like to give you some pictures and hopefully you can provide me with some information.
This manuscript dates back to the Ottoman period and is written in ancient Hebrew. I am looking for someone who translates the language and extracts a certificate from it. If possible, publish it in one of your opening articles and be part of your group.
Thank you very much for the respect, appreciation and fruitful work of mankind.
Best Regards
Saad Almuhairi
+971509353343
Email:
saadbusiness16@gmail.com
or
saad.lucky@thescroll.me
click this link:
saadscroll.business.site/
Also called Askanazi (no we are not nazis!!!!) jews,we were the most persecuted people in Europe in 1943. Now most of us have moved back to Isreal as said in Hosea 3:4-5. GOD BLESS THE JEWS!!!
Zaidee and Zaida. Why different pronunciation?
Accents! As you begin to learn languages or about languages you will realize how rare exact pronunciations are! We all have an accent.
Saftig means juicy in swedish.
Its 80% like german 😂👌🏻
oy vayvoy
Dus iz zayer geshmak ! !
Shlamiel.....
do you ever schwitz? OH MY GOD LOL
מיין נאָמען איז יוחנן
Actually it's just all German, except Tuchus.
Mom to help every city in the United States of America you know like those foam and rubber insulating bands that they put on goal posts at certain venues like basketball games and football and soccer games right they can put those on like the light poles and the stop signs and the street signs just to ground them a little more you know the highway department and the roads department they could probably benefit from that or the law enforcement who knows we've got to move the sludge is there anything we can do with this sludge you remember like the Rhino Lining that they do for trucks and underbellies of vehicles we got to put it somewhere and then the other phone we can cover we can fill that with seed and then we can do your crazy helicopter drop terraforming of the desert or whatever it is that you think is good for the environment who cares
Zaftig must be the English "zoftig."
I grew up with seeing for my young 7 year old eyes the BRUTAL HORRIBLE Tattoos, I love Yiddish, BUT I AM SO SO Sorry to say at 7, I BECAME a HUMAN with NO religion, I figured out (at 7 years old) that if we had NO RELIGION, Color or Creed, Gender WHATEVER, (we all Bleed the SAME COLOR) Hitler can NEVER EVER, I REPEAT NEVER EVER EXIST #RIP my ancestors I WILL NEVER FORGET
Ah, the ignorance of youth! As humans we will ALWAYS find reasons to set ourselves apart. Our egos demand it.
א שיינעם דאנק פאר דער ווידיא. ס'איז געוואהן געשמאק און מלא חן.
Yiddish without being frum loses it's taam. It's like being Jewish without acting Jewish. Nu nu. Becomes lukewarm.
What tf
@@user-po9iy3pk2y bisti a yid?
@@morehn I'm jewish I'm very confused at what your comment meant
@@user-po9iy3pk2y my point is that speaking Yiddish but not being religious strips Yiddish of its flavor. It's like eating challah on Passover and commenting how delicious it is.
@@morehn omg what how is soeksing yiddish without being reliogus like eating non kosher food people are jewish without being religous you know it's an ethnicity poeple arent any less less jewish for being non religious