From the Pages of Yedies

by ROBERTA NEWMAN

In June 1953, Yedies reported on the publication of a new issue of Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish language). Topics covered range from detailed discussions of grammar to the varieties of uses of the word tsores (troubles). The scholars who wrote for Yidishe shprakh were 60 years closer than we are today to a world in which Yiddish was the everyday language of millions of Jews, to the point that Hyman Sheskin could write knowledgeably about the specific Yiddish terms used by house painters in his native city, Grodno.

Read the entire text of Yidishe shprakh, Vol XIII, No 1.