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and Culture
I painted my world
How can we read the intersections of meaning its texts seem to provide
as well as selections from three of Mendele's greatest novels
— to make dreidels dance and latkes fly
Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein Tote Bag and CultureAbout a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them. It included Hebrew, a touch of the Romance and Slavic languages, and a large helping of German. In a world of earthly wandering, this pungent, witty, and infinitely nuanced speech, full of jokes, puns, and ironies, became the linguistic home of the Jews, the bond that held a people together. Here
