Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2005/01

From: "Abraham Gamboa" <abraham.gamboa@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Yiddish
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:41:50 -0500

Thanks for sharing all this interesting history with us!!! Even though my
name is Abraham I'm not Jewish but I do like to learn about all ethnic
histories!
Abraham

PS Some of us in Brasil are trying to put together musical methods to teach
how to play (interpretation; swing/syncopation and etc.) a variety of styles
here. I hope by mid-year we will have this done and on the market with Cds.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:10 PM
Subject: [kl] Re: Yiddish

> Shalom, y'all
>
> Yiddish is one of the Jewish languages (others include Ladino, and
> Hebrew). Yiddish descended form middle-high German about 900CE. The
> Jews of Europe (except for Spain and some of the Balkans) spoke Yiddish
> among themselves. During the Diaspora (after the temple in Jerusalem
> was destroyed for the second time) Jews who left Israel wouldn't sully
> the language of the bible - Hebrew - for everyday use so originally
> most Jews spoke both Hebrew and the language of whatever country they
> lived in. Yiddish started as, it is believed, a trade language - and
> became something of a "lingua franca" for Jews. A way to distance
> themselves from the Gentiles - especially in unfriendly countries. It
> is still quite similar to German but the words are written using the
> Hebrew alphabet (and written right-to-left). Over the centuries many
> Slavic and Romance words have entered Yiddish such as the Russian(?)
> word "shtetl". And, of course, there are myriad Hebrew words and
> phrases.
> Until the Holocaust, there were probably at least 6 million Yiddish
> speakers in Europe. There were newspapers, learned literary societies,
> operettas, serious and light drama, etc. All in Yiddish.
>
> Bleib gezunt (be healthy)
> Fred Jacobowitz
>
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Oliver Seely wrote:
>
> > I'm not a student of this, Sarah, but was Yiddish indigenous to north
> > Africa or was it an import?
>
>
>
> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>
>
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