Yiddish for Yeshivah Bachurim

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This book requires familiarity with Yeshivish as a prerequisite.

Though the Yiddish language took a heavy toll during the Holocaust, when most of its speakers were lost, the language is still commonly used to give shiurim or musar shmuessn in yeshivos. Unfortunately, many English-speaking yeshiva-students, though they already know many Yiddish words, and even incorporate them into their English, are unable to understand a full shiur given in Yiddish.

The purpose of this guide is to teach enough vocabulary and grammar to understand a Yiddish shiur.

[edit] Table of Contents

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• Introduction

[edit] Grammar

1. Reading Yiddish
2. Conjugating verbs
3. Verbs with prefixes and זיך
4. Possessive pronouns

[edit] Vocabulary

1. Some very common words
2. Questions
3. Prepositions
4. Verbs
5. Nouns and adjectives
6. Phrases that do not fit into other lessons

[edit] Miscellaneous

• About contributing - Please read this before editing this book
• Authors

[edit] See also

יידיש װערטערבוך אױפֿן װעב - an excellent online dictionary