#Yiddish

Ajab

yakabikaj

Fun #etymology of the day: Yiddish באקאליינע bakaleyne "grocery store", ultimately from Arabic بقالة biqāla or بقال baqqāl. It was borrowed from Arabic into Persian as بقالی baqqālī, and from

Av*shai אבישי أَبِيشَي

YeOldeAvishai

I'm gonna actually take the time to debunk this shit, bit by bit:1. Yiddish probably developed in the Rhine Valley, far away from the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea

Uwe Edelheit (no, that's not my real name)

dietweeterei

„Guten Rutsch“‚ literally ‘A Good Slide’, is a common wish for New Year in #German. Since the 1950s it has been traced back to the Jewish New Year feast “Rosh

gab

gabsaporta

hello folks. i’ve been a big fan of gerard way for a long time. i’m also jewish, which i think cannot be said for most people in this circle of

Jewish Museum London

JewishMuseumLDN

#Museum30 movement. Lets talk about Jewish Trade Unions! The London Jewish Baker’s Union began in 1905 and was the longest lived Jewish trade union, it closed in 1970. This banner

❄️🕷️Miri✡️🕎

DykescoSpider

Hi! Let's do something annoying and talk about Spider-Man! More specifically, modern Spider-Man, and the erasure of his Jewishness. Let's start this out by talking about who created Spider-Man: Stan

Ajab

yakabikaj

My suspicion (just a hunch) is the Ahmadi Yiddish translation of the Qur'an was more about the political/symbolic significance of the language than a practical text. There are earlier Hebrew

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

The modal verb 'can' has changed a bit over the history of English.We see from its Old English ancestor, cunnan, that its meaning was once 'to know' rather than 'to

Zev Good

therealzevgood

Who The Hell Is This Zev Guy, And Why Is He Saying All This Stupid Shit?: A Thread1. I'm an author and these are my books! You can check them

Claire

ClaireRedacted

This is going to be difficult to explain in English, but I still have a hard time with the word shloch as it haunted me as a kid. It’s a

jay you! black emperor

jaydestro

the biggest failure of 2020 is making async communication ok, we need more synchronous discussions in the remote working culture. less chat, more video face to video face until we

Visualize Value

visualizevalue

Visual Proverbs↓ "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." — Chinese Proverb "Think of many things, do one." — Portuguese Proverb "All things are

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

So the rightwing chatter on this predictably is that this proves Twitter has an anti-conservative bias.The reality remains: they coddle conservatives so much that by the time they're forced to

Emily Steiner

PiersatPenn

#teaching medieval Judaism: #thread #medievaltwitter Arthurian/chivalric lit: there are 2 rewritings which work well & reflect medieval Jewish culture and values. Translated into EnglishMeleck Artus (1279) Grail=charity bowl!Bevis of Ha

Space Jews

Propulzion

[thread] TOUS LES JUIFS SONT ASHKÉNAZESDans chaque #série, à chaque fois qu'on voit un ##juif a l’écran, il est toujours #ashkénaze, même si cela ne correspond pas a son background!

Viet Thanh Nguyen

viet_t_nguyen

Some people still want to keep Asian/Americans out. Call us foreign. It’s a sign of fear. We’re making our presence felt in books. It’s happening more and more in movies,

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