Dr Leo Davids The History Of Yiddish

[@devinstewart2973]

Thank you for the very informative talk. Yiddish is such a beautiful language, and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to learn more about its history and significance

[@henrypotter2462]

Thank you so much, I am not Jewish, but have been looking for this kind of video for a long time. I hope Yiddish stays around forever.

[@rhysmilan5019]

Pro tip : watch movies on flixzone. I've been using them for watching loads of movies these days.

[@gaelangelo1828]

@Rhys Milan Definitely, have been using flixzone} for months myself =)

[@daniel-meir]

Thank you for the lecture. One addition: Jews who moved to Poland kept speaking German not only because the local population was mostly rural but also because German was the international language in Central and Easter Europe. German had a high status and could be used for international trade.

[@joedonnelly421]

incredibly interesting lecture. Learned a lot so thank you Rabbi

[@seamusoluasigh9296]

Thank you Dr.Davids, a very interesting and illuminating lecture.

[@forzionknowifyou8282]

HAZAKA outstanding very true as a pakistani Yahoodi yidden Jewish man we speak farsi.language Jews was exiled to many countries we learned their customs and religions and cuisine foods but we kept our faith and dress customs and our Hebrew tradition secrets we are lucky we.are coming to eretz yisrael klal yisrael am yisrael are hashems chosen people Baruch hashem.we will unite and flourish the earth again shabat shalom ❣️🙏 ❣️❣️ Shahbaz gondal.america

[@daMacadamBlob]

How many Jews do you think there are in Pakistan? How is the community like? Awesome to hear, I thought Pakistan did not have a Jewish community.

[@billzen]

Thanks for this outstanding talk. Your emphasis on the time-dependent plasticity of Yiddish is very useful.

[@martinstraus8221]

Judeo-French was called Chouadite. The last speaker died in 1972.

[@brianfeldz1797]

That’s sad. I hate when languages die. Would be interesting to hear.

[@ednagrob7331]

Martin Straus Pxvm m

[@ednagrob7331]

Martin

[@Mindfultranslations]

I wish the Jewish people good will and prosperity… you deserve all the success you’ve achieved. I believe you are gods favored .. 😊❤

[@mvdsanden]

Thanks for posting. I learned a lot!

[@rys1968]

a great lecture! waiting for the next one!

[@antonygoedhals6272]

Thank you, Rabbi, for a fascinating lecture!

[@maxspindler1218]

Thank you. Very interesting and informative. Just one minor detail. At the time of the Machabean (Hasmonaim) revolt there was a Jewish presence in Rome. This Jewish community interceded with the Romans for arms against the GreekSyrians. A treaty was signed between the Romans and Hamonaim. This treaty was used later by the Romans to intercede in the cesession disputes for who ruled Judea.

[@johnbrandeisky6252]

Thank you for this lecture. You answered a lot of my questions I had about why Yiddish is so close to German.

[@markrogers7546]

Thank you Doctor. Very interesting.

[@williambagley5415]

Very interesting. Thank you for this very informative 'spiel' 😊

[@Jango1989]

Really interesting lecture

[@newreast3904]

very interesting! thank you.

[@StephenRosenbach]

Thank you Dr. Davids! This was very informative and enjoyable. BTW, my grandmother and her sisters would occasionally say things like "er hot mir upgepickt" (he picked me up) conjugating English verbs in a Yiddish fashion.

[@lsmart]

Thanks for posting the interesting lecture. As one whose mamma loschen is Yiddish, and who has a distinct interest in Jewish history, I knew much of this information, but you still filled in some details and put it all in perspective. Just one minor correction: You stated that Rashi lived at least a thousand years ago, when in fact he died on this very date (29 Tammuz) in 1105. Also, two interesting notes about the current state of Yiddish here in Israel: a) While outside of Israel it is spoken exclusively by Chassidim, in Israel it is Chassidim as well as two types of Lithuanian Charedi sectors - the "Chazon Ish'niks" in Bnai Brak, and the Yerushalmim, i.e., those whose families have lived in Yerushalayim for several generations. b) Even among certain ultra right wing Chassidic groups (e.g., Gur), nearly all the females and most of the males of the younger generation predominantly speak Ivrit, and many of them do not even understand Yiddish.

[@kaylisstone4467]

Not only Chassidim speak Yiddish outside Israel. Others have always spoken it, such as my mother, and then more are learning it.

[@schmulkele]

Thank you for your in depth discussion on the history of Yiddish. If you have any lectures coming up I would love to hear them. Where are y ou located?

[@shootayibyukhrabaytak674]

In NYC in the 1960's there were two Yiddish newspapers "Der Tawg" and "Fawverts" sadly gone now and there were large communities of Yiddish speakers.........I knew Uriel Weinreich who wrote College Yiddish in the 1960's.

[@joedonnelly421]

I do apologise Dr. Thank you.

[@maremue111]

Very nice story about Abdülmecid, the last Osman Calif.

[@newreast3904]

nooo. it was mehmet the 22nd or whatever! very respectfull from the rabbi's part.didnt even bother to see who that calif was.and it was the last, so easy to find. how nice of him.it says a lot....

[@buster9106]

It was specifically the Roman Catholics that were the Crusaders. And not only did they want to annihilate Muslims, and then Jews, they actually destroyed Byzantium and slaughtered eastern Orthodox Christians.

[@raechevlin4439]

Yiddish was my first language. My parents and their families were Holocaust survivors. The neighborhood children wouldn’t play with me. My parents decided to only speak English to me and my siblings and only spoke Yiddish to each other and when they didn’t want us to understand. So, I knew when they spoke Yiddish I didn’t have to listen.

[@sylvie9689]

Where Did this sentence come from "Follow the Path of Least Resistance" PLEASE help me for I believe I was spoken this to. It's a VERY LONG story which I can not write here for would take too long and hurt my 59 year old fingers....

[@sylvie9689]

I grew up with seeing for my young 7 year old eyes the BRUTAL HORRIBLE Tattoos, I love Yiddish, BUT I AM SO SO Sorry to say at 7, I BECAME a HUMAN with NO religion, I figured out (at 7 years old) that if we had NO RELIGION, Color or Creed, Gender WHATEVER, (we all Bleed the SAME COLOR) Hitler can NEVER EVER, I REPEAT NEVER EVER EXIST #RIP my ancestors I WILL NEVER FORGET !!! WE MUST NEVER FORGET !!!!!!

[@misacraft3714]

I speak German only on a very basic level and Yiddish is quite understandable for me. At least I can catch guite a lot of words.

[@BrianSapp945]

Question. And I'm just asking. Wasn't the original and ancient Hebrew language that of Canaanitic and Ugaritic speech and dialect, according to the Torah? Ibrahim, left Southern Mesopotamia, eventually learned the language of Canaan. It is said that the original Hebrew language had been loss due to assimilating into other cultures.

[@daniel-meir]

Scientifically, Hebrew is a Jewish dialect of Canaan. The last native speakers that I know of were in Tiberia in the 9th century CE (based on the testimony of Saadia Gaon). The language was used as the religious and trade language until the 19th century and then Jews started to speak it again in Israel. But according to the Jewish tradition, it was the original language of Adam that remained in the family of Abraham because his ancestor Ever did not participate in the construction of the tower of Babel.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

At least they understand eachother

[@Nikolai-Nguyen-Nikitin]

Can I get a full scholarship for doing some research on Jewish History?

[@brianfeldz1797]

Nikko Nguyen How are you. I’m glad you are interested in the subject. I hope since you wrote this, that you were able to find what you were looking for and go on to study the subject. I do think there are groups and organizations that might or could help you with this if you already haven’t or still want to. Perhaps not a “full” but partial or grant. I could be wrong though. There is a bunch of Hebrew/Jewish academic groups, that if you still are interested, I’ll try to get you whatever info I could. Peace and love Mr. Nguyen.

[@brianfeldz1797]

Wonderful job good sir. Lovely lecture for lay folk on the subject. A difficult subject given the various thoughts on the linguistic and historical background. Every lecture like this, that opposes and contests the fraudulent and antisemitic work of the imposter and con man Eran Elhaik and his buddy in self hate Schlomo Sand is welcome and needed. There is so much misinformation and BS on this subject and the Ashkenazim in general, every bit helps. Hope you still give such lectures. This is BK? I’m in BK in SHB and wouldn’t mind coming to a lecture or even having a lengthy discussion. Mazel, peace and love. Keep up the good work Dr. Davids

[@davidantonacci9525]

Sir, it's very difficult to see that you're in a cult when you're in a cult. Being Jewish is literally being in a cult. Jewish history/identity is a fraud. Every Jew on earth, just like every Christian and Muslim, is a lineal descendant of converts. The European Ashkenazi Jews have no connection at all to the land of Palestine(other than a romantic imaginary one). There was never an "Exile" of the Jews in 70ce nor is there any evidence whatsoever that might corroborate it as an actual historical event. Of course, the last thing you would ever want to do is seek to find out that everything you've been told and everything that you believe to be true, is false, wrong, not true. That's why it's so hard to know that you're in a cult. Sir, you are in a cult.

[@siegfriedw1526]

Very interesting.I am German.I have learnt in school Russian,English and Bulgarian language.My father spoke German and Polish both perfect and also Russian because of his time i n russian captivity 1945-1947.My grandfather spoke and was able to write Polish,German and Russian.They were farmers ,German minority in the polish part of the russian empire untill1919.My grandfathers both had to fight against one another. My oldest Son Natanael has studied Judaism in Jerusalem,his wife also.He refused to enter the german army.instead he served in an nursery home in Petah Tikva.He is speaking the hebreuw language better than the yewish inhabitants of the yewish quarter in Jerusalem comming from the US.This is also german history,but not told in the movies.We,the conservative christians and the jewish minority in Germany are standingfor the same values.We stand for our belives,family values against all kind of anti-believing ideologies..May the almighty protect Israel and our little democratic rights the Globalists left for us.Trump will have is second term,he will stand with Israel.I pray for him

[@DiamondW66]

Mozel!

[@sabaideemai1]

I am looking for the real name of toasts . Is it sucharkes ?

[@shimathonwerthheim2959]

Painetzels

[@samconner5479]

How much of Yidish has to do with Iran?

[@docastrov9013]

Starts 3:30

[@jameshudson169]

sounds like they're in canada, but they came there by way of new york.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

What they heard in germania was indoeuropean

[@Lagolop]

Just for the record, there were Jews in the Rhineland 600 BC. There is a mikvah in Mantz dated to 400BC that was just discovered.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Germany is a country of the 19 century.this era

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

German is a language of the 16 century this era Luther invented In germany until today they speak many languages German.is yiddish

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Pompeyo went there They had their religion

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Like the ladino that has spanish

[@majidamd2375]

Shall. All I Love Jews I Love Torah

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

So yiddish is from indoeuropean

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

The ashkenazi

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

That is why is like german

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Like the alphabet that the jews took from ugarit

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Well the jews called the romans

[@danilkopaskudnik3002]

_moyshele hot aruntergetombet fun eskalye un hot zikh zayn tetele tseklapt..._ here's your frog-yidish...

[@alejoeisabel]

No mention of Zionism's attitude toward Yiddish. The language of the slave master. The same goes for Ladino.

[@spurdo-benisbrigade3203]

alejoeisabel not true

[@alejoeisabel]

Where is it today? Its moribund, ready for the graveyard of extinct languages.

[@spurdo-benisbrigade3203]

alejoeisabel what are you talking about Yiddish is beginning to be revived again due to a great influx of new yiddishists

[@bowlerfamily]

Ladino is around. Where are you located?

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

All that was roman So they could move around

[@charlotteweill8924]

P

[@LittleImpaler]

He speaks the truth. It's not a German language.

[@jazura2]

There are regions in Germany where the dialect is just like Yiddish. It is 85% German with Hebrew and Slavic.

[@Lagolop]

Yiddish is classified as a West Germanic language and is in the same family as Dutch and English. Yiddish is based on Medieval High German.

[@brianfeldz1797]

It’s ?MOSTLY a Germanic language. Slavic only started to be added later in history and maybe makes up 5-10% of the language. Germans still preferred to use academic Yiddish up to WW2, with far less Slavic influence than the Yiddish in Slavic areas.

[@sidvicious6505]

@@brianfeldz1797 No Sorry, you have been lied to. There is a western dialect with a much larger adoption of Germanic lexicon (modern German not a middle age dialect) . The eastern Yiddish has almost no Germanic lexicon. The little bit that can identified Germanic origin is just as common as the bits of modern German or French that have incorporated into English. Only in eastern Yiddish the Germanic origin words often have different meanings then the Germanic language. Knaanic predates any far reaching possible claim of significant numbers of Jews in the Rhineland. It was an entirely slavic origin transfliated into the mishnahic Hebrew alphabet. That's lexicon included largely only Hebrew existing in the pentateuch. There are several survivng artifacts showing both the use of knaanic was being used by large established communities of Jews in the lands of modern east Poland, Ukraine, and Russia Dateing from the 8th to 12th century C.E. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaanic_language The oldest evidence of Yiddish is from the late 12th c.e. and was Still primarily slavic origin lexicon . This late 12th century Yiddish though primarily Slavic actually a mixed definitive Latin. Which makes perfect sense. Latin was the language of business and nobility of the period in western Europe. The expulsions and migrations of jews 13th through 16th centuries makes any keeping record influence of origin or the significance of influence or the exact period split between eastern and western Yiddish. Just really ridiculous to state definitively. But by the 17th century the two had a significant difference in vocabulary. The influx of German into Yiddish comes around the same time as the 3 major sects of ashkenazi split and were established as well as the first records and writings of secular or atheist jews. Yiddish of any dialect translates word for word into several modern slavic languages. Word for word in German, Yiddish sounds as if Yoda spoke deutch.

[@brianfeldz1797]

@@sidvicious6505 Almost nothing you have stated is true. You realize that right? Lol. You are citing Wexler and Elhaik? The two worst possible sources for any inquiry into Yiddish. They are both frauds and their work is not accepted by most academics, linguists and geneticists. In fact their theories completely go against any academic material on the subject. They are con men, targeting you and your conspiracy theories so they can make money publishing nonsense you believe. The information you are pushing are complete conspiracy theories. I can tell you have never heard or been around Yiddish. You are also confusing populations. There were plenty of Jews throughout the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. But none of them were the base of Ashkenazi communities or the originators of Yiddish. Some of these communities got absorbed into Ashkenazi communities once they arrived. Others became some of what are called Mizrahi, mountain Jews and various other non Ashkenazi communities. Every single thing you said shows your sources are either completely illegitimate or outright smear, conspiratorial content. Any linguist worth a damn will tell you and knows that Yiddish has its origins in Germanic and Latin as I stated, with small bits of Hebrew and other loan words. And yes, eastern Yiddish and modern Yiddish have adopted more Slavic because a huge portion have spent the last 600 years or so in Slavic speaking regions. And as the wiki even stated, many of those Slavic words are not used in modern Slavic, because they were absorbed into Germanic Yiddish, not the other way around. Wexler is an opportunist and a fraud. Just like Elhaik. You are clearly getting your information from a source with an anti Semitic agenda. And the only source you post is a wiki about Knaanic language? A source that clearly stated the Ashkenazi community was a separate entity that eventually overtook other Judeo linguas. Jews were Merchants that travelled and settled everywhere in tiny communities. Throughout all of Europe, North Africa and most of Asia, But you are confusing these with Ashkenazi communities that spread later. You are the one attempting to alter and go against accepted scholarship on the subject and thus you need to provide actual evidence. Because actual scholarship is in my corner on this one. Even the one citation you made clearly opposes your theory, and outright states that the theory you push is not accepted by the academic community. So I’m not even sure you read the page you posted. And the Yiddish being spoken by the modern USSR diaspora community is even different than the Central European Yiddish that left during and prior to WW2. With more loan words. You are literally just spreading conspiracy theory.