Yiddish

thumb|The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from [[Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria]]

facetious characterization of dialect

genre of written material

YIVO (, , short for ) is an organization that preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania) as the Yiddish Scientific Institute (, ; the word yidisher means both "Yiddish" and "Jewish").

genre in theater

Book of Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi.

cultural and linguistic movement which began among Jews in Eastern Europe during the latter part of the 19th century

Shm-reduplication or schm-reduplication is a form of reduplication originating in Yiddish in which the original word or its first syllable (the base) is repeated with the copy (the reduplicant) beginning with the duplifix shm- (sometimes schm-), pronounced . The construction is generally used to indicate irony, sarcasm, derision, skepticism, or lack of interest with respect to comments about the discussed object. In general, the new combination is used as an interjection.

Yeshivish (), also known as Yeshiva English, Yeshivisheh Shprach, or Yeshivisheh Reid, is a sociolect of English spoken by Yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox Yeshiva world.

varieties of the Yiddish language

phonological feature

how Yiddish is spelled and written

grammar of a judeo-germanic language

Klezmer-loshn ( klezmer-loshn, Yiddish for ''Musician's Tongue'') is an extinct derivative of the Yiddish language. It was a kind of argot, or cant used by travelling Jewish musicians, known as klezmorim (klezmers), in Eastern Europe prior to the 20th century.