The Yiddish-speaking guys at the back of my old shul. From Wordnik.com. [Running Tally - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference
For instance, many Soviet Jews had been Yiddish-speaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » European Languages Outside Europe] Reference
I suspect that Larry grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac Bashevis Singer - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Frieda Johles Forman was born in Vienna into a Yiddish-speaking family. From Wordnik.com. [Frieda Johles Forman.] Reference
My Yiddish-speaking, immigrant grandparents did the same thing with my parents. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SAVING LANGUAGES AT SOAS.] Reference
In contrast, most Jews in Poland grew up in Yiddish-speaking homes and communities. From Wordnik.com. [Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.] Reference
American audiences saw rabbis, cantors, street peddlers, and Yiddish-speaking heroes. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
I posted in a "Russian-Hebrew" forum hoping there could be some Yiddish-speaking people there. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ORHAN VELI.] Reference
She became self-conscious and ambivalent about her Jewishness and her Yiddish-speaking parents. From Wordnik.com. [Miriam Dworkin Waddington.] Reference
Outremont has one of North America's largest extant Yiddish-speaking community in the Americas. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ANOTHER HIATUS.] Reference
But whenever I hear it I think of my Yiddish-speaking relatives talking about hocking a chainik. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: WHY LINGUISTS GET NO RESPECT.] Reference
A Yiddish-speaking cook could learn basic English vocabulary by looking across at the translation. From Wordnik.com. [Cookbooks in the United States.] Reference
I knew Lang had come from Chicago, where she was raised in a cultured but poor Yiddish-speaking family. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Pearl Lang, 1922 - 2009] Reference
JOSHUA COHEN, who became Spike, was born into a poor, Yiddish-speaking family on Manhattan's Lower East Side. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazim from eastern Europe experienced differentiation around political and ideological axes. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico.] Reference
Of the 170 clubs, eighty-five were categorized as “Yiddish-speaking” and contained forty-five hundred members. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneer Women in the United States.] Reference
Yes, Yiddish-speaking fuzz who were prepared to glom onto every vile syllable he uttered in the mother-in-law tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
A third important fact is that they came from the very heart of the Pale of Settlement, from a Yiddish-speaking environment. From Wordnik.com. [Yiddish: Women's Participation in Eastern European Yiddish Press (1862-1903).] Reference
The chains and the big food companies did not know how to promote to a Yiddish-speaking population since they employed no Jews. From Wordnik.com. [Food in the United States.] Reference
He was the eldest of nine children born to Yiddish-speaking followers of the Hasidic sect; his parents were poor but not impoverished. From Wordnik.com. [From Shtetl to Château] Reference
In any event, there is no circumstance in which Yiddish-speaking members of a Chassidic community would be referring to “Shabbat.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hereville — “How Mirka Got Her Sword,” page 20] Reference
It initially attracted women in farming communities and middle - and lower middle-class homemakers, all of Yiddish-speaking backgrounds. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina: Jewish Women.] Reference
Born Lillian Brimberg on December 25, 1899, she emigrated with her Yiddish-speaking family from Warsaw to New York when she was two years old. From Wordnik.com. [Lillian Nassau.] Reference
Mr. Sendak says his Yiddish-speaking parents emigrated from Poland long before World War II, but most of his extended family died in the Holocaust. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Wild] Reference
Here an eminent role was played by the Kultur-Lige, a powerful Yiddish-speaking organization that aspired to the creation of a modern national culture in Yiddish. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Shor.] Reference
During the Middle Ages and for most of the centuries since then, Ashkenazim — the Yiddish-speaking Jews of central and Eastern Europe — produced virtually no theater at all. From Wordnik.com. [Yiddish Theater in the United States.] Reference
As I remember it, my mother was left speechless and found herself in a highly emotional state that the even vaguely Yiddish-speaking among us will recognize as a full-body kvell. From Wordnik.com. [David Wild: How You Can Heal Our Troubled Economy: Buy My Book, Bitches] Reference
They were Slavs or Italians or Yiddish-speaking Jews, and quite a few of them were radical. From Wordnik.com. [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference
Yiddish-speaking Jews too were encouraged to jettison their language and change their names to Hebrew ones. From Wordnik.com. [Point of no return] Reference
New York almost certainly had the largest concentration of Yiddish-speaking residents in the world at the beginning of WWI. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism]
German Jews were Republicans; the Yiddish-speaking East Europeans were very active in Socialist movements and labor unions. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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