Post-World War II Liverpool was generally very antisemitic and Lennon came from an anti-Jewish background. He was known to make impromptu antisemitic ...

Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End ... an immigrant from Lithuania who spoke Yiddish as a mother tongue but preferred to write in literary Hebrew.

The best rationalisation of Yiddish orthography, it went on, would be to replace the present Hebrew alphabet with Latin characters, which would practically solve all the problems of Yiddish ...

Well, because the Yiddish word Mokum (מקום) simply means “place” or “city”. In the 18th century, Jewish people in the Netherlands and Germany called every city Mokum . To distinguish between the ...

One letter expounds on the writer’s ardent vegetarianism — ironic given that his grandfather was a kosher butcher — and a program for the Yiddish theater testifies to Kafka’s abiding interest in his ...

U.S. Sen. JD Vance's last name means "bedbug" in Yiddish. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: The Yiddish word "vants" means bedbug. What's False: However, "Vance" and "vants" are ...

Yiddish is written in the Hebrew script, not the Latin alphabet. As such, we needed a dictionary to provide transliterated Yiddish in order to compare the two words. Many online Yiddish-English ...

There are significant differences between how the alphabet is used in Hebrew and how it’s used in Yiddish. Yiddish Brief A bissel of all things Yiddish: music, cooking, books and more.

She believes the writing, which Mr Adams said was on local stone, is between 100 and 200 years old and said it was "definitely written in the Hebrew alphabet ... any sense in Yiddish or Aramaic ...

The Hebrew alphabet is used to write texts in Hebrew and the second Jewish language, Yiddish. Photo: qwizz.ru. The Tuareg Tifinagh alphabet is interesting because it is used only by women of the ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state. At first sight, it appears that Hebrew has won and that, after the Holocaust ...