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10 Yiddish Words and Phrases to Love

Ellie Rudee
In recent years, Yiddish has experienced a remarkable resurgence. Whether you're reconnecting with your heritage or exploring linguistic quirks, Yiddish offers rich expressions to spice up conversations. Here are 10 phrases you should know and use to participate in the Yiddish resurgence.

Are Chinese and Yiddish Mutually Exclusive?

Rabbi Loraine C. Heller

I ask you, is this a sheyn punim (a pretty face)? I’ve been dying to say those words for the past four years, ever since I came to China to work as a teacher of oral English at Nanyang Normal University.

Sometime around my 50th birthday, I was hit by

Yiddish, English, and the Languages of Our Lives

Mindy Leaf

I found myself looking over a list of words from my husband's first Yiddish class with growing unease. Rather than standard language lessons, the class featured more of a story-and-culture format, with sprinklings of Yiddishisms thrown in. Yet the instructor