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Yiddish and German Loanwords

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Author(s): Bartal, Israel
The Jews of the Ashkenazi Diaspora, which in the Early Modern period extended from Alsace in the west to the eastern frontiers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, spent more than a millennium in a linguistic environment where a variety of Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages were used. The effects of the influence of Germanic languages on the Ashkenazi Jews’ spoken and written vernaculars came about over the course of several historical phases. It began with the formation of a Jewish-Germa…