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Yiddishism
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Yid·dish·ism  (yd-shzm)
n.
A linguistic feature of Yiddish, especially a Yiddish idiom or phrasing that appears in another language.

Yiddishism
a Yiddish loanword in English, as chutzpa.
See also: Language


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That is left to less religious and secular Yiddishists who love the literature, love the poetry and love the songs.
Some Yiddishists in interwar Poland expressed concern that Jewish youth seemed to prefer reading these books over original Yiddish works and worried about "the alarming rate at which young Jews were switching to Polish altogether.
I recall how, in one of the years following World War II, he reported with glee that some Argentine Yiddishists responded to the charge that Yiddish was now a dying language by founding a magazine called Davke, which barely translates as "Just For That Unlikely Reason.
 
 
 
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