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Vinony

Yiddishist

proper noun

  1. an advocate of the Yiddish language and culture
  2. a specialist in Yiddish linguistics
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדישיסט (yidishist, “Yiddishist (person)”). By surface analysis, Yiddish + -ist.

  1. Of or relating to the efforts of the Yiddishists.

noun

Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדישיסט (yidishist, “Yiddishist (person)”). By surface analysis, Yiddish + -ist.

  1. A proponent of the Yiddish language and culture.

    “The third type of secular Bar Mitzvah was developed by secular Yiddishists in the United States before and after World War II. Rifkind's book includes a Hebrew translation of a Yiddish article from 1939 describing such an event. It sounds from the description that the family and friends were Labor Zionists. The party was in place of a synagogue service and the focus had shifted from God and the Mitzvot to Zionism, Yiddish and the Jewish people.”