1. There are similarities with German, though Yiddish is a distinct language.

2. I couldn't read or understand a word of Yiddish, so I asked him to translate.

3. Mrs Cohen translates the questions into Yiddish for me.

4. Roth gives a good gloss of the Yiddish.

5. The Anglish has lost most of the Yiddish meaning and refers basically to one who pesters beyond endurance.

6. Yiddish characteristically uses a suffix that connotes endearment and familiarity.

7. Besides, you write in Yiddish, a language no one except a few primitives can understand.

8. When he found out I knew Yiddish he always had a good joke or a good line.

9. She is sitting at a table, reading a Yiddish newspaper, and doing crochet.

9. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

10. It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

11. But in the meantime the history of Yiddish warns us to be wary of dogmatic statements about its life and death.

12. There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years.

13. Yiddish and Luxem - bourgian are offshoots of German, and Afrikaans is based on Dutch.

14. Shvitzer - Yiddish: someone who sweats a lot, especially a nervous seducer.

15. It may well be this bleak prospect that has spawned the flurry of books about Yiddish in recent years.

16. I had begun writing in Hebrew, then changed over to Yiddish.

17. It had little relevance to their everyday concerns and displayed contempt for the Yiddish language-their mother tongue.

18. Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow used to collaborate in translating Eliot into Yiddish.

19. SHIme may be nonsense, or it may refer to shimmy or some other term, but it is not Yiddish.

20. An important element in Chasidic tradition is its devotion to Yiddish, even in prayer, which is usually in Hebrew.

21. She smoked cigarettes on the Sabbath and often went to the Yiddish theater.

22. By 1910 there were translations into six other languages, including a Yiddish version published in London.

23. She also appeared in her own one-woman show in Yiddish, Hello, Molly!

24. My father used to speak of intellectuals as playboys and used to curse the Yiddish writers as poisoners of youth.

25. This is confusing to people who think Hebrew and Yiddish are the same.

26. He was haunted by the word Zuckung a foreign and possibly Yiddish word he did not recall having heard in civilian life.

27. This particular gun didn't have a barrel or fire bullets, instead the word is an alteration of the word ganef or gonif, a Yiddish word meaning "thief."

28. I will not write down his real name even in this bothersome Yiddish - letter cipher.

29. If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch. -- Yiddish Proverb.

30. But then you notice that Jewish symbols are everywhere, from the huge menorah dominating the main square to the large sign in the train station welcoming travelers to "Birobidzhan" in Yiddish.

31. Personally, I answer to the latter question with a quote from linguist Max Weinreich, who wrote a multivolume history of Yiddish.