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  • Yiddish has been called many things over time, but yidish is, I think, pretty late earlier names include loshn ashkenaz, and comes from the phrase yidish-taytsh, i.e.

    languagehat.com: JEWISH ARAMAIC. 2004

  • Dylan wrote in American yidish,just for the record.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • “Di yidish-veltlekhe shuln in Lite (The Secular Yiddish Schools in Lithuania).”

    Helene Khatskels. 2009

  • Re: [MarisolEnPlayas] what happens if i move to mexico leaving all my debt here in the u.s. would it i'm shocked marisol that you would counsel a potential criminal that what she is doing is ok. she only owes $40,000 and i would venture to say by the tone of her post that she just doesn't feel she should be obligated to her debt which she probably incurred because she had to have THINGS without thinking of the consequences of buying them on credit. before you jump on me i have a close relative with the same attitude "gee its not my fault all the banks and credit cards told me i could have this money to buy stuff-it's not my fault that i did it, it's theirs so screw 'em and all the other people who pay their debt's, i don't care if their interest rates go up because of me, i'm more important". there's an old yidish expression-be a mensch! her situation is not like your mothers so don't constantly turn other people's situations into ones you're familiar with-it doesn't wash in this case-open your mind to the fact that every situation does not compute with your own. kisses and cheers-pedro aka attilla the hun on this one

    what happens if i move to mexico leaving all my debt here in the u.s. would it affect me there? 2002

  • ephraim · August 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pm af yidish heyst di shtot “vilne” . “vilna” iz der rusisher nomen.

    Jerusalem of Lithuania | Jewschool 2007

  • It's a phonetic rescription of an old Terran word from a language called yidish. "

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • a daytsh hot in treblinke zi farbrent. un ikh bin in der yidishe medine der same letster, vos hot zi gekent. far ir shrayb ikh oyf yidish mayne lider in teg di shreklekhe fun undzer tsayt. bay got aleyn iz zi a bas-yekhide - in himl zitst zi bay zayn rekhter zayt.

    Dutchblog Israel 2010

  • a daytsh hot in treblinke zi farbrent. un ikh bin in der yidishe medine der same letster, vos hot zi gekent. far ir shrayb ikh oyf yidish mayne lider in teg di shreklekhe fun undzer tsayt. bay got aleyn iz zi a bas-yekhide - in himl zitst zi bay zayn rekhter zayt.

    Dutchblog Israel 2010

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