Noomi blogs about Yiddish

"Redst du Yiddish?" That is Yiddish for, "do you speak Yiddish?" I don't, actually. I know some useful words and funny sentences. But I can't make conversation in Yiddish, which was the common language of much of European Jewry until WWII. Yiddish emerged about 1000 years ago as the everyday language of German Jews and [...]