Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet, from right to left, and is the only Germanic language to be written in a non-Roman script. Along with Aramaic and Hebrew, it is one of the three major literary languages of Jewish history. Yiddish (from German: jüdisch-Jewish) is the mother tongue- mame loshen-of Ashkenazim, central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of frightened and hopeful Humanity.” It contains treasures - rich in humor and in memories. When in the second half of the last century Isaac Bashevich Singer was awarded a Noble Prize for Literature, he raised an interesting question: “People ask me often, ‘Why do you write in a dying language?’” And he tried to explain: “There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life… each encounter of love… Yiddish has not yet said its last word.
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