r/Yiddish

Hello! I have always wanted to learn Yiddish dance and would love to organize a bimonthly or maybe-weekly class in Riverdale/Spuytin Duvil, Bronx.

So much Yiddish dance was cut off in the Khurban/Holocaust, but it still exists and there's a lot of beautiful culture to learn, preserve, and have fun with!\

Are you interested? I would be organizing a great teacher and providing the space. Please just be cool/nice/kind, accepting of different types of people, and into learning Yiddish dance

Would you come to such a class for $50/week?
Would you do an 8 week commitment?
We could culminate the class with a celebratory dance party :)

Opportunity to make meet new people and make new friends :)

If people are into it, I could organize add-on things from time to time, like a Yiddish movie night with movie projected on the wall or other hangs.

https://preview.redd.it/j112su5oce2h1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b85b490234e6154c22ccdb6e4259cf56fc6c102

מיסיע קאלעקט שפרייט!! בעל שם טוב

Witam, czy mogę prosić o przetłumaczenie tekstu ze zdjęcia. Zdjęcia klasowe z czasów międzywojennych.

dziękuję za pomoc

Hello, could I ask you to translate the text from the photo? These are class photos from the interwar period.

Thank you for your help.

https://preview.redd.it/v41e72su0a1h1.jpg?width=379&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8303395b6546b1c30c649cb3c9054fe11752b91

So, in my Yivo course we are dealing with Dative constructions like:
מיר איז װאַרעם.
I'm more confused when געפֿעלן is used or when the sentences are more complex like these from Sheva Zucker's book:

די חלות זײַנען אונדז דאָס מאָל געראָטן.

חיימען געפֿעלן נישט די באַדינגונגען.

I could really benefit from another text with more examples and explanations.

Any thoughts?
THANKS in advance.

I've been learning how to read Yiddish for a couple of years and I would like to be able to write properly as well but I find it difficult. With reading I practice by going through a book, translating it, and looking up words I don't know in a dictionary. Any tips for how to develop a similar routine with writing?

Would it be approximately accurate to estimate that today's Yiddish speaking population is 80+% Orthodox/Hasidic, if counting first and second language Yiddish speakers, but when counting first-language Yiddish speakers it is 99+% Orthodox/Hasidic?

For this purpose people who are "formerly" Orthodox/Hasidic and learnt the language while part of those communities, are included in the count/percentage of those communities. (I don't think this niche is particular large, anyways.)

And as far as the non-Orthodox Yiddish-speaking demographics are concerned, are they mainly cultural Yiddishists who learnt it later in life for nostalgic purposes as well as the (today) very diminishing very elderly non-Orthodox Russian (and former Soviet) Jews who did speak it as a first language, who thirty years ago you could much easier be found in Russian Jewish neighborhoods speaking Yiddish in the streets as their first language?

Thinking about words that are coincidentally similar in sound and meaning, but have different sources. The best I could do is the semitic *kitser* and germanic *kirts*, both meaning short/brief. A bit more of a stretch is the semitic *gazlones* and slavic *grabyozh* for theft. Any other examples?

I searched every dictionary and tried several words but maybe I haven't found the right term yet and the yiddish words I can think of don't really hit right.

I'm looking for a yiddish word that means perseverance/to have persevered despite struggle/to have withstood/endurance as a person. Oyshaltn sounds too much like suffering through it and shteyn fest is a bit unwieldy. Most words I found are focused on diligence and loyalty but I'm looking for something more along the lines of "having come out at the other side". I could go with hatmadah but I'd prefer yiddish.

As it's for a small calligraphy a half sentence would be too long.

Assuming the klezmer tune style “khosidl/חסידל” is *Dos* (I’ve heard Dos & Der and get the sense that native speakers aren’t too fussed about gender anyway), would a Khosidl from Boston be titled “באסטאנער חסידל” or “באסטאנע חסידל”? Does it depend on whether the tune (neut) is being described as from Boston vs the dancing chasid (masc) being described as from Boston? What if the phrase is prefaced with דאָס? Or prefaced with the indefinite article?

Also, I don’t have a clear idea whether chasids see this tune name as fine, pejorative, or just don’t encounter it.

Gut vokh & a dank.

Edit: final nun typos