Loved this. Brings back memories of my beloved grandparents, and their relatives.

Very cute. Gave me a good laugh. Thanks

Thank you all for such a great mitzvah of sharing the language of our ancestors. I wish there was somewhere near my home to sit and learn Yiddish, Mine Papa voud knell mit groise Nachus.

Absolutely divine! I love all their spirits, seeing so much energy in the elderly always inspires me. I married a Jewish man 12 years ago and ive been throwing out terms left and right lol hes proud of me and I feel honorarily Jewish 🥰🙏🏼

I am from germany, understand every word ....wow

@enchantedbeauty1105

6 ай бұрын

VILDE CHAYA= MEANS SHOLMO.

Vat a joy to hear these beautiful people....reminds me of my family...so few left like them...xoxo

This makes me miss my bubbe and zayde ❤️

You should really keep this up. This is a really special group of people - they are just so entertaining. My family loves to listen to them. We'd love to learn newer words (we already use all of the ones introduced in part I and part II. Please - it would be a shanda to not continue recording these amazing people!!!

I enjoyed this very much. So many of the words are familiar to me from movies and tv shows. Love it and can't wait to learn more.

hysterical! Loved it !! Please make Part Three!!

My mom is German- Italian (not Jewish as far as I know) and used ALL these words during my childhood. I'm a bit confused as to where she learned them but I still feel a close to the yiddish and Jewish faith because of if

@999reader

2 ай бұрын

Did she grow up in Brooklyn? :)

Different pronunciations of Pipik (and other words) depends on if you're a Litvak (ancestors from Latvia/Lithuania area) or a Gliciana (ancestors from Poland/Ukraine/Russia). My relatives came to the USA in the 1890's. I find it interesting that 4 generations later some of my friend and I will still pronounce words differently based on what part of Europe our ancestors were from.

These expressions make me smile.

oy gevalt! I enjoyed this

Sweet and well done. Marty you're great.

Entertaining and educational. Thank you!

Don't kvetch when you eat too much and get zaftig, or else you'll plotz.

Part 3 please

Sweet people.

Excellent videoclip of understanding & speaking Yiddish !

Need more of this. I knew some of it Now would like to learn more. Thanks.

Shabbat shalom

Best Yiddish word.........Meshuggah

Zeer git geven,ich hob echt hanue gehat fin de eltere menshen ,zei zenen azoy lechtig!!

The long-awaited YIDDISH Part Two is finally here! Click the play button below to watch it now: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fp1sxbyDZpbggc4.html

All these Yiddish words my bubbe said - they are some of the most frequently used words . The English definitions were perfect. What about vus vilsta? What do you want? And ga-a-vex? Go away... shana madela, my bubbe always told me - pretty girl

@groeleorg

3 жыл бұрын

in german these are very similar: "was willste > was willst du?", "geh weg" and "Schönes Mädele > Mädchen"

Very cute Thanks

They are so cute!

Very Good! Thanks! Shana Tova!

@LAJewishHealth

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback Jacob! Very glad you liked it. Shana Tova to you and yours!

Why....no one not understand, what Yiddish is a language, where every word has many mining...foe a sample: 1. Shnorer ....can be a homeless or even a child, who asking and asking for a candy. 2. Mensch /a person/, but can be nice, respectble, honest, honored, kined men ETC.

Its a German platt loved schlammassel and michugene haha

@renedupont1953

3 жыл бұрын

Yiddish is a beautiful and expressive Jewish language which has embodied Ashkenazic-Jewish culture for more than a thousand years. The words used here certainly have nothing to do with German. Yiddish is a unique linguistic, cultural and musical entity; Yiddish music is famous the world over. (You can take your "German platt" and put it where it belongs.)

Nudnik too!

Lovely... how about schnorrer? And I used to hear a word that sounded like "hauser" that some old-timers I knew said was "bother" or "annoy." True?

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 !!!!!!

Baal-e-bust(e) is Aramaic "lord/lady of the house"; some dialects of Yiddish make the 's' into a 'sh' before a 't' (typical also of some German dialects of the Rhineland). Pupik is Western Yiddish, whereas pipik is Litvak Yiddish. [Epes] shpilkish / a shpilkes is something you can play around with, something to hold the fabric in place before you make the stitch or some way you have of coping. Vilde is from Rhineland Middle High German and Chaye is probably from Aramaic (cf. Hebrew chay "alive"). Shmegege is probably from shmeg "smell"; in Polish, to stink is śmierdzieć (on śmierdzi "he stinks"). Watch kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y2iTq8aYmrWsfs4.html I learned spoken Yiddish (from a university background in Standard German and some experience with Biblical Hebrew) before I began to learn my grandmother's Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect of German (which is experiencing a revival). Both lived in a shtetl. Watch kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6WZm7Slh7WxktI.html

בעל־הביתטע אָדער באָל־בוסטער?

My bubbe always called my brother and I vilde hyia (forgive my spelling). My gelman is pushing on my kimmel, which is causing me to be a bit femmished and fershimmeld. I went to my doctor and he told me that I had speilkis in my zintagazoid which can cause me to be a bit ferblunjet (again please forgive my terrible spelling).

It's in my name! I'M A NUDNIK!

Oy Vey, does this make me Schvitz ;)

I have a question about the term "chutzpah." I had always been under the impression that this was only a negative term, in the sense of "the nerve," "the gall," or "temerity," etc. A very good example of chutzpah in this sense is the following quote from Sirhran Sirhan, the man man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. When he was once denied parole, he is reported to have said something to this effect: "If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would not countenance the injustice you've done to me." However, I've had an exchange with a Jew who was originally from New York City, and he said that in his native city, "chutzpah" is more like courage or bravery. Who was right, he or I? Or does this term have a localized meaning in New York City that differs from other places where Yiddish (or Yiddishisms) are still used?

@LAJewishHealth

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the question! To my knowledge, the word can be used both ways. It’s all in the context of how it is used. In my opinion, disagreements like these are what makes Yiddish the wonderful language that it is.

@belpberg1

9 жыл бұрын

519DJW In my Swiss dialect "Chuzpeh" means someone is brave we seem to use a lot of yiddish words.

@519djw6

9 жыл бұрын

belpberg1 That's interesting, as Switzerland is one of the last European countries that I would associate with Yiddish. i wonder how this came about. Any ideas? (I've got a question to ask you about Swiss-German. However, as it has nothing directly to do with Yiddish, I'm sending it to you as a private message, and hope you have the time to answer.) Thanks.

@belpberg1

9 жыл бұрын

of course I have no idea why it is so, but my "dialect" is a relative to Alemannisch which is a South German dialect and in Basle we use words like Chutzpeh (that's how we say it) and Schiggse which we use for a woman who is not behaving. We have more words, but they are not on my mind in this Moment as I also don't live in Basle any more. Basle has also a rather large active Jewish community

@belpberg1

9 жыл бұрын

519DJW in Basel we speak "Alemannisch" and maybe because the City had always an active community of Jews some expressions have slipped in to our dialect. Switzerland is full of different dialects - must be horrible for a foreigner - and our dialect is the closest one to German and Yiddish has a lot of germansounding words - I could not answer your other question - send your question to anna44@gmx.ch and I will try to explain.

helt rätt

Only 1 for 9, although I had also heard "shpilkes" from Mike Meyer's SNL skit, "Coffee Talk" ("he's got spilkes in his ganectegazoink"), but I thought he was making up those words. Still not sure about the second one. "Genectagazoink?" That's how it sounded, not sure how to spell it.

@nudnikjeff

3 жыл бұрын

That's made up, but Linda made it sound poifekt.

@RamLaska

3 жыл бұрын

@@nudnikjeff I love it

װי שײן ! איך װאָלט געהאַט ליב שמועסן מיט זײ

You say your name wrong, Mr. Finkelstein.

kennt vastehn ir des ? hobt a mzl und a glik ! greetigs by ambros aus graz ! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3-LrbeFpdaYe84.html

"he has ehh...antz in the pantz"

😂

Sheine

Schliemiel? Schlemazel? Schlepper? Nachschlepper ? Tuchislecker?

@Rocketmail554

Жыл бұрын

Ausvorf

@Rocketmail554

Жыл бұрын

Luftmensch

@Rocketmail554

Жыл бұрын

Vilde chaya

@Rocketmail554

Жыл бұрын

Grosse macher

יידיש איז זייער שיינע שפראך

Can a shmegegge be a woman?

Interesting, thank you! Pipek. shpilke is from Russian with the same meaning