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Yiddish Translator

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Old postcards and letters in Yiddish? I can help. Check out new Yiddish words I find on Twitter at #NotInTheDictionary. Tweets in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช and ๐Ÿ’‚

 Boston, MA
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Joined June 2014
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pronouncing Christmas with a khet until they stop pronouncing Chanukkah with an H
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TFR enthusiast (@TFRenthusiast) profile pictureTFR enthusiast@TFRenthusiastNov 3
In the growing hasidic communities of Rockland and Orange county, NY. Satmar is distributing flyers indicating for whom people should vote. Demographics is destiny.
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I love these two paragraphs from the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, starting with Dale tells
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It pains me to order German beer by name in the US, trying to guess how Americans pronounce them... Kรถlsch Hefeweizen Mรคrzen
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Yiddish typewriters have a shift key. What for? Just to have a different font size basically
Israel ื™ืฉืจืืœ (@Israel) profile pictureIsrael ื™ืฉืจืืœ
@IsraelOct 28
Hebrew has no uppercase or lowercase letters. This makes yelling in all caps VERY DIFFICULT.
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Yiddish Translator@JewYidOct 27
Replying to @OrenKessler
German Kot - dung/feces. Iron Poop I've been confused. Thank you
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C. Widmann (The Pluriglot)@vuorilleOct 27
This is why you always learn the local language when travelling.
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Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) profile picture
Oren Kessler@OrenKesslerOct 27
Eisenkot (n) โ€“ surname, orig. North Africa From Berber aznkสทแธ (โ€œgazelle; young noble manโ€). Compare Moroccan Arabic ุฃุฒู†ูƒุถ (ส”azenkaแธ), ุฅุฒู†ูƒุงุถ (ส”izenkฤแธ) Spelling likely distorted by clerks upon immigrants' arrival in Israel due to similarity to German/Yiddish "eisen" (iron)
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Rivka Mandel (@RivkaMandel) profile pictureRivka Mandel
@RivkaMandelOct 25
A YIDDISH AD about how Mike Lawlerโ€™s votes on Medicaid and food stamps affect Jewish families. The very community rejecting Cait may be the same community paying the price. Let that sink in. #NY17
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Replying to @RealToviaG @NechumiYaffe @HatziburCharedi
No. We couldnโ€™t find a Yiddish speaking man to represent HaTzibur HaChareidi in Yiddish. And the Yiddish speaking audience wouldnโ€™t tolerate a woman coming on the Podcast. So, although she does speak Yiddish, we had her on in English. And we have another English interview with a member of the mainstream Chareidi parties, which will be released to before the election IYH.
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languages where butterflies are called "summer-birds" (or, "summer-fowl") ๐Ÿฆ‹ Danish/Norwegian ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘”๐‘™ Plautdietsch ๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’๐‘™ Yiddish ๐‘ง๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ-๐‘“๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’
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#YiddishAd Haven't sent this font before
Swedish Yiddish Association (@YiddishOnline) profile pictureSwedish Yiddish Association@YiddishOnlineOct 22
๐Ÿงผ Palmolive pรฅ jiddisch i Forverts (1950-tal). ๐Ÿ˜„ Funnen pรฅ Judiska Museet Stockholm. Jiddischpressen levde med sin tid. ๐Ÿ“ฐ Maila dina jiddischdokument till: ๐Ÿ“ฉ [email protected] Stort tack!๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŒ jiddisch-arkiv.se/ #Jiddisch #Arkiv #Forverts
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Two first-year college students today had the same question: how do you double space with paper?
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Paul Sies - Auch in der Nazizeit war Spargelzeit, 2026 youtu.be/w_0cSgsC460?si=3PWEโ€ฆ
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shulman@shvlmanOct 20
Poster for Shop by H. Leivick at the Irving Place Theatre in 1926 archives.cjh.org/repositorieโ€ฆ
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I'm curious about those saying this Israeli woman doesn't speak Yiddish well. Is it Americans complaining about Israeli Yiddish? or are they correct? in Vienna, they similarly say that American Yiddish is done for/not Yiddish. so I'm curious
Ace Ratzon (@AceRatzon) profile pictureAce Ratzon
@AceRatzonOct 15
ืื™ืš ื‘ืขื”ื˜ ืื™ื™ืš ืื– ืื•ื™ื‘ ืื™ืจ ืงืขื ื˜ ืงื™ื™ืŸ ื ื™ืฉื˜ ืงื™ื™ืŸ ื™ื•ื“ื™ืฉ, ืจืขื“ื˜ืก ื ื™ืฉื˜ ืงื™ื™ืŸ ื™ื•ื“ื™ืฉ. ืขืก ืžืื›ื˜ ืื™ื™ืš ื ืืจ ืื•ื™ืกื–ืขื”ืŸ ื ืืจื™ืฉ.
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ืขื–ืจืช ื ืฉื™ื (@ezrathnashim) profile pictureืขื–ืจืช ื ืฉื™ื@ezrathnashimOct 15
ืขื–ืจืช ื ืฉื™ื: ื‘ืžืืžืข ืœืฉื•ืŸ: ื”ืžื•ืขืžื“ืช ื”ื—ืจื“ื™ืช ื“"ืจ ื ื—ื•ืžื™ ื™ืคื”, ืžืจืฉื™ืžืช ื”ืฆื™ื‘ื•ืจ ื”ื—ืจื“ื™ ื‘ืกืจื˜ื•ืŸ ืคื ื™ื™ื” ื‘ื™ื™ื“ื™ืฉ
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The Jewish Meme Queen@jewishmemequeenOct 14
Normalize speaking in Jewish lingo to your non-Jewish coworkers. โ€œYou should be gโ€™bentched Kristen.โ€
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My Yiddish (perhaps indeed a large swathe of Ukrainian Yiddish or beyond?) has no word for berry or melon, but separate words for blueberries /raspberries /strawberries and watermelon /canteloupe /honeydew, respectively.
Ryan Rhodes โš™๏ธ๐Ÿง  (@langofmind) profile pictureRyan Rhodes โš™๏ธ๐Ÿง @langofmindOct 13
In my language and cognition class, we look at understudied langs and make connections between ling diversity and cognition. We talk a lot about color, number, animal names as subsets/supersets. Then I find this in the kids section of the local library. You love to see it
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Jason G. Mahoney
@jgmahoneyOct 11
Someday I might be able to walk by an old, dormant Jewish temple outside of Boston and not think โ€œoh, this reminds me of Roxbury and Dorchester.โ€ Today has proven not to be that day. โ€“ at Hartford, CT
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Alex Edelman
@AlexEdelmanOct 9
My favorite fact is that no oneโ€™s name ever got changed at Ellis Island because it makes people *absolutely furious.*
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