English-Spanish translations for yiddish

• yidis
• yídish
  Me refiero, por ejemplo, al ladino o al yídish. I am referring, for example, to Ladino and Yiddish.
  Entre ellos se halla Yitzhak Arad, ex-Director del Centro del Holocausto de Israel, y Fania Brancovskaja, bibliotecaria del Instituto Yídish de la Universidad de Vilna. These include Yitzhak Arad, the former director of Israel's Holocaust Centre, and Fania Brancovskaja, the librarian at the Yiddish Institute at Vilnius University.

Definition of yiddish

• Of or pertaining to the
• A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe

Examples

• Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music

Related words

• Yiddishist
• Yiddishism
• Yiddishland
• Yiddishkeit
• yiddishkayt
• Yiddish language
• Eastern Yiddish
• Western Yiddish