Yid|dish|ism

Yid|dish|ism
Yid|dish|ism «YIHD ih shihz uhm», noun.
1. devotion to the Yiddish language and literature.
2. a Yiddish word, phrase, or meaning: »

Among Gentiles, it is becoming quite in to pepper one's talk with a Yiddishism or two (“what chutzpah!”) (Time).


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