YIDDISH: Part One 

I hope there will be many more of these ! I love Yiddish and we need to keep it alive.

I’m not even Jewish and I know a lot of these. My German family used all of these except schvitz. That one was new for me. Yiddish is so interesting and just downright neat. I hope the Jewish community continues to keep it alive for generations to come.

It is sad to watch as Yiddish disappears as a language. So expressive... So inventive.... Gesmacht!

Memories as a child on a warm summer night in our NY apartment listening to my Bube, my mother and aunts having conversations in Yiddish as I drifted off to sleep

One of the things I loved about living on "South Beach" in the late 1970s was the large community of older Jews who spoke Yiddish. It's such a wonderfully expressive language.

jews and arabs are very culturally similar. i am of arab background and i always found jewish communities to very similar. my best friend is jewish and i think his family behave very similar to mines. they are both family oriented, love to cook for others, similar folk dance and songs, etc. why the fighting between the two groups? never understood that. every arab needs a jewish friend and every jew needs an arab friend. we would surprise each other how much alike we are.

Those two ladies are just precious.When I was living at an assisted living facility in Coos Bay,Oregon,I met two ladies from New York who were Jewish.Anne,the older of the two,was always ciorrecting me on my Yddish.She is now about 98 years old.Ruth was the other one.I started learning it about 30 years ago.Ruth,sadly,passed away not long after I left there.I just adored her.

I miss my grandparents and their friends. I used to get such a big kick out of them as they speak amongst each other in Yiddish in front of us when they didn't want us to know what they were saying. But they taught us some words too. LOL!

I learnt Yiddish as a child from my parents; they spoke Yiddish when they did want to talk in secret so I will not know what they talked about. Now I am 86 y.o. and live in a neighbor county of San Diego.

As a German with Jewish ancestry I revelled in their discriptions... I can so much relate to the feelings expressed with these words :-D Wonderful!

I live in Holland and speak Dutch and German but speak nor understand any Yiddish, or so I thought.... But for some reason, I literally knew every Yiddish word.

It's funny, Schmuck in German (the language Yiddish is derived from) means jewelry. So when they called some one a schmuck it was originally sarcastic.

Love Yiddish my mother spoke it all the time when I was a kid

❤ I could listen to them all day and night....beautiful people.

Half my family is Jewish and I knew the vast majority of these words... I use a lot of them.... and no one but my mother understands. I wish i had more Jews to speak Yiddish to!

zaftig literally means "juicy" which definition conveys its proper complimentary sense. . .

This reminds me of "The Nanny"! I am a gentile...but i always found Yiddish to be an interesting and expressive language. The words just sound inherently funny!

I love this stuff deep down inside. My father told me that during WWII, my grandfather changed his last name to Anderson. He doesn't remember what his original last name was but that it was Jewish. Frank Anderson -- my grandfather -- didn't want to be captured by the Germans with a Jewish last name! Smart man but now I want to know about my geshmak history.

I am Asian married to a Jewish man and listening to all these ladies and gentlemen talking takes me back to the days when I hung around my husband’s dad and mom’s family. They spoke American English pepper with lots of Yiddish. I didn’t understand at first till my mother in law gave me a book call The Joy of Yiddish. I poured over the book and learned so many wonderful words and I was able to follow their conversation easily after that. They have since passed and I really miss those times with them. They are so sarcastic but so hilarious. 💞💖💕❤️

Bring back Yiddish and interview my mother Esther Weiss at the Jewish Home...!

Lmao 🤣 it's actually easier picking up more Yiddish then I thought it would be . I'm trying to learn more about my family history .

Many thinks is has different meaning....it is dependent when and to what you using. Yes, it is unusually language, but is a beautiful one.🌹👍

Loved this video! I came across the word Yiddish while I was reading the dictionary this morning; I decided to RU-vid it so I could hear what it sounds like compared to German, it just made my whole morning! It is absolutely beautiful, and the entire time I had a smile on my face! Seeing the perfectness and beauty of our different cultures and generations is such an awesome thing! How precious.

And for anyone who is curious, the literal translation for Zaftig, is from the German for "Juicy"!

I lived in Germany for 15 years and was very fluent in German. Today, I still understand quite a bit of it. When I first came back to the U.S., I heard two women speaking Yiddish. I recognized German words and approached them. When I asked them in German if they were German, they seemed to be quite afraid and left quickly. At the time, I didn't know about Yiddish. Now, when I hear it, I still recognize the German words...but I don't know what the other words mean.

Absolutely wonderful! I'm kvelling all over

Beautiful language!

oh wow my father would say at times when I was growing up. his father side is from Poland and west of lviv and spoke this I learned in genealogy. thanks for bring back memories now I will teach my son

Excellent videoclip of understanding & speaking Yiddish !

brings back memories and smiles!

I loved every minute....made me smile and remember my bobes un zeides....thank you so much...

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my Mother and Bubby used to speak Yiddish to keep what they were saying a secret from me. I feel very strongly that by not raising me to speak both Yiddish and English at the same time (like my mother and her two sisters were raised) that my heritage was stolen from me. Americanization is okay, but not at the expense of my heritage.

I grew up with this language. I wonder which countries those folks with the accents came from.

Oy so cute!!! I love these people. Something about Jewish people..especially elders...makes feel so warm inside.

liked it a lot. Learned a lot and I have some new words now. People were just great

LOVE IT! I was brought up being taught that a mensch is a nice Jewish boy. To schvitz is to sweat. Tuchas is your backside I can't remember what other ones they went through on the video but it was adorable!

Love this! Great fun!

Thank you very much and I agree!

They are adorable!

Love it!

What 😍 lovely interactik ,with ur audience 😊 of good gu zunheit❤ thx

The ironic thing is that they belong to the generation that helped it disappear. These are the ones that would speak it among themselves and not teach it to their kids so that their kids didn’t understand what they were saying. Now, they don’t want it to be forgotten or lost but, what do you think is going to happen when you don’t teach it to your kids? It doesn’t get passed down in the language dies.

This is great!

Loved THIS!

A lot of similarities with German 😊 loved these words!

Hi Ladies and Gentlemen : I love Yiddish and for me it is not at all difficult or strange, I can understand almost all of it, it is so similar to my Swiss Dialect and I rather find it strange, that some people cannot understand a single word. Hope Yiddish survives.!! Bless you all

Lol love it 💗 there very cute couple

I once worked for a Jewish family owned business. One little guy there taught me several Yiddish words-they just have a way of expressing the exact things you want to say by some type of emotional magic it seems. According to this shiksa anyway. Rest in peace Shlomo (Saul)

sounds like german with a twist of originality ! like when you speak german and english and then make a combination of both. love it !

A mench is who: kind, respektble by everyone, honest, helpful then they say : he is a mench. Sveetz is: when people talking a lot about how they are successful, how they did this or this, how he is all that. And sveetz is: when you sveetz 😊 In Yiddish....many words have dable meaning. This is a beauty of the language. 🌹

Add ferschnoshked; mazel and dreykop-- all very useful Yiddish words.

I'm from south east Germany and understood everything.

these people literally look like people that I see from my Greek church every Sunday. I'm not even joking you they look exactly the same

I had a close friend growing up who was Jewish and she and her parents spoke fluent Yiddish I loved it. I want to learn it but I don't know why. I took Spanish in college. Mazoultoff ! Oye vey.

I knew most of the words as my parents were from Germany and were religious jews. Some words were just pronounced differently. However the word kvell is not used in german. Henry kissinger's mother was being interviewed by someone and asked her if she kvells about her son ( she did not understand what he meant ). These people are so cute

I’m laughing so hard my Schmekle hurts

Haha Yiddish sounds really just like a German dialect it's really funny for me :)

l grew up in London, Jews and Gentiles we all mixed together socially and were friendly...we leaned Yiddish words ( a mix of Herbrew and German) and it was no big deal...we were all kids and kids aren't racists, that's the point...they learn that from their parents...!

Great vid! I could plotz!

Its almost like german, but in usa the jewish people that speak yiddish mixed it with english words. Very interesting

Zaftig! I am zaftig! Yay!

I first heard of Yiddish when I was a kid. Specifically a kids book about antisemitism where a kid can speak Yiddish and is made fun of for both speaking Yiddish and being ethnicity Jewish. I honestly thought that it were related to Hebrew for a while

Oy omg this is like my whole neighborhood in Chicago Lol this is so Cute and Funny

I certainly have tuchus, what to do, live

I am German and I understand a lot of these words because sound and meaning are close to German. In fact I think that yiddish is based on German. Which shows that the Jews were widespread in Germany and they were and are part of our culture.

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I'd really like an in depth of "shyster" (I probably spelled that wrong) I'm thinking dodgy business man type or untrustworthy or something on those lines dunno would love to hear from elders and betters.

Leeds in England has a good sized Jewish community.. I served as a Police Officer there in 1967, and we called thieves "Ganifs'". 40 Years later I learned it is Yiddish for 'thief'..

Anyone who's ever watched Rugrats knows that the yiddish word for an ass is "shmegege!"

thank you so much, vat a groyse mitziah

Who knows Yiddish song: ih un der in de un mir we aklanki un a ter, kezele- feigele main /and etc./? Transportation: l am with out you and with out me....it is like a door with out the iron holders. This used to sing my bobe /avalashulem/ it is mean rest in peace.

For those interested, during the mid 16th century, Pope Paul ordered for Jews living in papally controlled areas of Rome had to wear the Star of David and moved them inside of ghettos. The Jews who fled to Poland were called Ashkenazim ("Germans"). The latter developed a dialect that combined German and Hebrew. Thus, Yiddish was born.

Also called Askanazi (no we are not nazis!!!!) jews,we were the most persecuted people in Europe in 1943. Now most of us have moved back to Isreal as said in Hosea 3:4-5. GOD BLESS THE JEWS!!!

Sweet. ✡️♥️🥰

גאר גאר גישמאק!!

My bubba used to call me a schmuck. 😄

Oy! THANK YOU. 8-)

Geshmak is delicious and pleasurable

The first installment of the Los Angeles Jewish Home's highly anticipated short film series YIDDISH has finally been released! Click the link below to watch it now! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gC5YGDKUEeM.html

Zaftig = meant as soft yet wonderful delicate in many ways❤😂😊 Pls. ?

Geshmak really means taste. A mensh mit geshmak. Is a person with good taste.

"saftig" in Swedish means juicy as in a big steak or a big fruit or a curvy woman.

A shayne dank!

these words are mostly german and share similar meanings,or the same.

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

When shall we see PartTwo, please?

at the end she said et soll nisch verloren gayn, in german it is es soll nicht verloren gehen ... almost the same ...great video

Can anyone help me and tell me how chaim the Hebrew word for life is pronounced in yiddish and hebrew?

Its 80% like german 😂👌🏻

Saftig means juicy in swedish.

Actually it's just all German, except Tuchus.

Hey guys..... what’s a falasha?

do you ever schwitz? OH MY GOD LOL

Mom to help every city in the United States of America you know like those foam and rubber insulating bands that they put on goal posts at certain venues like basketball games and football and soccer games right they can put those on like the light poles and the stop signs and the street signs just to ground them a little more you know the highway department and the roads department they could probably benefit from that or the law enforcement who knows we've got to move the sludge is there anything we can do with this sludge you remember like the Rhino Lining that they do for trucks and underbellies of vehicles we got to put it somewhere and then the other phone we can cover we can fill that with seed and then we can do your crazy helicopter drop terraforming of the desert or whatever it is that you think is good for the environment who cares

Yiddish without being frum loses it's taam. It's like being Jewish without acting Jewish. Nu nu. Becomes lukewarm.

Zaidee and Zaida. Why different pronunciation?

Dus iz zayer geshmak ! !

מיין נאָמען איז יוחנן

Zaftig must be the English "zoftig."

oy vayvoy