CIYCL YIDDISH CULTURAL PROGRAMMING - The Origins of Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Jews - K. Weiser

Dr. Kalman Weiser provides an in-depth overview of new and old theories about the origins of Yiddish language and the Ashkenazic Jews with whom Yiddish is associated. (In English, Recorded via Zoom February 13, 2022)

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Yiddish has a maximum of 12 romance words. Some of these romance words are only in Western Yiddish which went extinct when its last speaker died in 1977. Yiddish has too few so called romance words to count as having a "romance component".

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Who are the Sorbian people. Does he mean Serbian?

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Sorbs/Wends. A slavic exclave whose homeland is within Germany.

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They're a Western Slavic people, closer to Czechs. (Serbians are Southern Slavic.)

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It was an excellent overview. Enjoyed it very much .