[ClearCase_guy]

Oy! That’s meshuggah.

[Maceman]

Makes me think of the Japanese/Jewish restaurant, Sosumi.

[mamelukesabre]

I gotta wonder what kind of japanese person would give a care about yiddish. I’m trying to make a list in my mind of the most useful languages to learn and yiddish is way down on the list...far below japanese in fact.

english
spanish
french

then it gets vague...maybe a tie between german, dutch, and portugese.
Chinese would be on the list if it wasn’t such a ridiculously difficult language.
So excluding chinese, next is probably a tie between russian, arabic, and japanese.

then maybe 25 more languages
then yiddish

[spetznaz]

Swahili-Yiddish online dictionary

[Cronos]

thanks for a fascinating article..

[denydenydeny]

Ueda was immediately smitten with the language that is written in Hebrew letters, but is a hybrid of German, Hebrew, Russian and other languages.

An inaccurate description of Yiddish, which is essentially German with some Hebrew vocabulary and smaller borrowings from Russian and French. Yiddish is immediately intelligible to German speakers.

[wideminded]

Someone gave me a very interesting book by a guy who started a project to save all the world's Yiddish books, many of which were on the verge of destruction.

One of the major sources he dealt with were libraries owned by left-wing Jewish organizations that had been founded decades ago and were going out of business.

[Tainan]

Yiddish-Japanese ping.....yeah...thats right.