Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2005/01

From: "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Yiddish (was Simeon Bellison)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:12:40 -0500

The Jews in North Africa sopke Ladino, the Spanish-Jewish dialect.

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> From: "Oliver Seely" <oseely@-----.edu>
> Subject: [kl] Re: Yiddish (was Simeon Bellison)
> Sent: 12 Jan 2005 22:34:30
>
> 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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