Yiddishist

English

Etymology

From Yiddish ייִדישיסט (yidishist, “Yiddishist (person)”). By surface analysis, Yiddish +‎ -ist.

Noun

Yiddishist (plural Yiddishists)

  1. A proponent of the Yiddish language and culture.
    • 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 57:
      The third type of secular Bar Mitzvah was developed by secular Yiddishists in the United States before and after World War II. Rifkind's book includes a Hebrew translation of a Yiddish article from 1939 describing such an event. It sounds from the description that the family and friends were Labor Zionists. The party was in place of a synagogue service and the focus had shifted from God and the Mitzvot to Zionism, Yiddish and the Jewish people.

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Adjective

Yiddishist (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the efforts of the Yiddishists.

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See also

  • Yiddishism (“German: Jiddischismus (Yiddishist movement), Polish: jidyszyzm, Yiddish: ײִדישיזם (yidishizm); German: Jiddismus (word or phrase), Polish: jidyszyzm”)
  • Yiddish studies (“German: Jiddistik, Polish: jidyszystyka”)
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