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Yiddish Translator

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Old postcards and letters in Yiddish? I can help. Check out new Yiddish words I find on Twitter at #NotInTheDictionary. Tweets in 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 and 💂

 Boston, MA
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pronouncing Christmas with a khet until they stop pronouncing Chanukkah with an H
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TFR enthusiast (@TFRenthusiast) profile pictureTFR enthusiast@TFRenthusiastNov 3
In the growing hasidic communities of Rockland and Orange county, NY. Satmar is distributing flyers indicating for whom people should vote. Demographics is destiny.
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I love these two paragraphs from the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, starting with Dale tells
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It pains me to order German beer by name in the US, trying to guess how Americans pronounce them... Kölsch Hefeweizen Märzen
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Yiddish typewriters have a shift key. What for? Just to have a different font size basically
Israel ישראל (@Israel) profile pictureIsrael ישראל
@IsraelOct 28
Hebrew has no uppercase or lowercase letters. This makes yelling in all caps VERY DIFFICULT.
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Rivka Mandel (@RivkaMandel) profile pictureRivka Mandel
@RivkaMandelOct 25
A YIDDISH AD about how Mike Lawler’s votes on Medicaid and food stamps affect Jewish families. The very community rejecting Cait may be the same community paying the price. Let that sink in. #NY17
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#YiddishAd Haven't sent this font before
Swedish Yiddish Association (@YiddishOnline) profile pictureSwedish Yiddish Association@YiddishOnlineOct 22
🧼 Palmolive på jiddisch i Forverts (1950-tal). 😄 Funnen på Judiska Museet Stockholm. Jiddischpressen levde med sin tid. 📰 Maila dina jiddischdokument till: 📩 [email protected] Stort tack!👏 🌐 jiddisch-arkiv.se/ #Jiddisch #Arkiv #Forverts
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Two first-year college students today had the same question: how do you double space with paper?
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Paul Sies - Auch in der Nazizeit war Spargelzeit, 2026 youtu.be/w_0cSgsC460?si=3PWE…
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I'm curious about those saying this Israeli woman doesn't speak Yiddish well. Is it Americans complaining about Israeli Yiddish? or are they correct? in Vienna, they similarly say that American Yiddish is done for/not Yiddish. so I'm curious
Ace Ratzon (@AceRatzon) profile pictureAce Ratzon
@AceRatzonOct 15
איך בעהט אייך אז אויב איר קענט קיין נישט קיין יודיש, רעדטס נישט קיין יודיש. עס מאכט אייך נאר אויסזעהן נאריש.
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עזרת נשים (@ezrathnashim) profile pictureעזרת נשים@ezrathnashimOct 15
עזרת נשים: במאמע לשון: המועמדת החרדית ד"ר נחומי יפה, מרשימת הציבור החרדי בסרטון פנייה ביידיש
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Awful name for a mohel
Thrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי (@ThrillScience) profile pictureThrill Science ✡️ עם ישראל חי
@ThrillScienceOct 8
"Shaky" was also the the name of my מוהל. Shaky Goldberg, ז"ל. (He did a good job.)
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on the bright side, this makes me feel better about ppl denying the Holocaust. ppl are just dumb
Boston 25 News (@boston25) profile pictureBoston 25 News
@boston25Oct 7
Patriots QB Drake Maye reveals he is unsure if United States landed on the moon in 1969 ebx.sh/i4wUwP
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i'm not putting a picture of my kids on here. but have your fourth kid.
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Cute project for my 4 year old. But these arent the 5 afflictions on Yom Kippur
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Good to remind everyone that "Hebrew" script today is the Assyrian script and Jews had something before that. Adopted during the imperial period
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"Oy, ir narishe tsienisten" "Oy, you foolish Zionists" Song in Yiddish then English youtu.be/LCs93RPZ7pU?si=o_a9…
Oy, Ir Narishe Tsienistn

Oy, Ir Narishe Tsienistn

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Im actually surprised its in Yiddish
#MKY מי כעמך ישראל (@MKYstatus) profile picture#MKY מי כעמך ישראל
@MKYstatusAug 23
Rav Shneur Kotler, son of Rav Malkiel, says his first shiur klali ever in BMG
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The gray haired chevra isn't helping tho
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benefitn - benefits (English word, Yiddish plural ending) בענעפיטן Surprisingly is already in the dictionary as a standard Yiddish word
Williams Burger (@Moshe_Wil) profile pictureWilliams Burger@Moshe_WilAug 23
I can’t believe it a WSJ op-ed from @DBashIdeas actually made it into my home in a Yiddish magazine 😲
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New zman and my new kollel chavrusa has text! Im so excited. Now I wont have to call when I have to cancel. Yeridos hadoros has its advantages
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