Klarinet Archive - Posting 000173.txt from 2005/01

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Yiddish (was Simeon Bellison)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:35:31 -0500

I'm not a student of this, Sarah, but was Yiddish indigenous to north
Africa or was it an import?

Isn't Yiddish better defined as European Jewish, and then possibly with
added qualifications?

Oliver

At 08:12 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
>Dan,
>Yiddish means Jewish in every sense. Yiddish, Jewish and Yehudi are
>exactly the same thing. ("Yehudi Menuhin" means- the Jew will rest)
>And I don't mind at all getting into this discussion!
>Sarah

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