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Gothic Yiddish: April 2012

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Friday, April 20, 2012. Labels: מישטיינס געזאָגט — שפּראַכאַטלאַס. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dovid Katz's home page. Electronic form of the the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. View my complete profile.

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Gothic Yiddish: July 2009

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Sunday, July 5, 2009. The development of Germanic short 'o'. Proto-Germanic is commonly reconstructed as lacking a short 'o' phoneme. The subsequent development of short 'o' can be looked at by tracing developments in Gothic, German and Yiddish. Biblical Gothic, attested from the 5th century, is close to the Proto-Germanic state. There is no 'o' phoneme in the native Germanic word stock although 'o' is found in loanwords. Yiddish occupies an intermediate position between Gothic and German. The short ...

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Gothic Yiddish: October 2009

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Sunday, October 25, 2009. The Fourth Century Crimean Origin of the Ashkenazim. As is argued in other essays, on this blog, the Germanic component of Yiddish goes back to an East Germanic, probably Gothic, root. This raises the question of how Gothic material came to be found in a language, Yiddish, which is first attested in medieval Germany. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dovid Katz's home page. Electronic form of the the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. View my complete profile.

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Gothic Yiddish: December 2014

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014. The Role of Crimean Gothic in the Formation of the Eastern Yiddish Dialects. In previous posts I have stated my general conclusions that there was once a Gothic speaking Jewish community in Crimea which played a role in the history of Yiddish. Recently, I have been able to come up with a more detailed historical narrative. In future posts I plan to supply the reasoning behind this reconstruction but here I just want to present it in broad outlines. In this new environment Yiddi...

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Gothic Yiddish: May 2013

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Friday, May 24, 2013. A sketch of the history of the Yiddish dialects. This Bavarianized Yiddish spread into Germany where it was learned by speakers of Central German dialects who modified it by incorporating material from Central German. The German Jews of the Rhineland also incorporated their unique and very old Hebrew vocabulary. This was the origin of the family of West Yiddish dialects that came to be spoken in Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxemburg, Holland and Switzerland. This process had interesti...

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Gothic Yiddish: September 2011

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Sunday, September 18, 2011. My research on the history of Yiddish has also taken on some new directions thanks to hints provided by teachers, Marvin Herzog and Mordtkhe Schaechter. As to the question of how the original Gothic-derived Yiddish got to Austria, I currently favor the hypothesis that from at least 500 CE on, Gothic was spoken by the Jews of northwestern Balkan Jewry. Medieval Austria was settled by Jews from the Rhineland and East Franconia as well as other areas but I think that early Yi...

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Gothic Yiddish: October 2008

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Sunday, October 12, 2008. The Purpose of the Gothic Yiddish Blog. These developments depended on networks of short-range communication that wove pre-colonial societies spread over wide areas into structural units. Cultural traits could diffuse efficiently through these networks because the high level of interconnectedness allowed them to bypass any obstacles. Within these vast networks the efficiency of communication precluded the existence of any truly primitive societies. Some societies did...The earli...

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AHEYM LINKS: Yiddish Ethnography, Dialectology, Folklore

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AHEYM LINKS: Yiddish Ethnography, Dialectology, Folklore. Monday, September 18, 2006. In Yiddish Ethnography, Dialectology, and Folklore. A list of selected online resources. Open links in a separate window, or tab, by using right-hand mouse click). 1 Living memory, ethnography, history. New York Public Library. Photos, Documents, Maps. 2 Heritage tourism and roots (re)search. Witness to a Jewish Century. Jewish Genealogy Web Index. 3 Dialectology and history of Yiddish. Samples of Southwestern Yiddish.