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Advanced Yiddish: Hungarian Yiddish Between Two Worlds with Leyzer Burko (in Yiddish)

$25.00

Advanced Yiddish: Hungarian Yiddish Between Two Worlds with Leyzer Burko (in Yiddish)

Before World War II, Hungarian Yiddish did not play much of a role in secular Yiddish culture. There were no famous Yiddish writers from Hungary. Most secular and modern Jews there spoke Hungarian or German, while only the very Orthodox stuck to Yiddish.  But Hungarian Yiddish would have a remarkable fate because it is the mother dialect from which came the dialect of most Hasidim today. Most of their families have roots in the Kingdom of Hungary, which once had a much larger territory, including large parts of Romania, Slovakia, and even Ukraine.

Hungarian Yiddish itself is very interesting, because it belongs to two different dialect areas. In the western part of the country, Jews spoke a type of Western Yiddish similar to what was once spoken in Germany—very exotic! In the eastern part, Jews spoke a dialect that was similar to Polish Yiddish, but often with some western elements. The latter is the basis for most Yiddish spoken today.

Advanced Yiddish: Hungarian Yiddish Between Two Worlds with Leyzer Burko (in Yiddish)

Before World War II, Hungarian Yiddish did not play much of a role in secular Yiddish culture. There were no famous Yiddish writers from Hungary. Most secular and modern Jews there spoke Hungarian or German, while only the very Orthodox stuck to Yiddish.  But Hungarian Yiddish would have a remarkable fate because it is the mother dialect from which came the dialect of most Hasidim today. Most of their families have roots in the Kingdom of Hungary, which once had a much larger territory, including large parts of Romania, Slovakia, and even Ukraine.

Hungarian Yiddish itself is very interesting, because it belongs to two different dialect areas. In the western part of the country, Jews spoke a type of Western Yiddish similar to what was once spoken in Germany—very exotic! In the eastern part, Jews spoke a dialect that was similar to Polish Yiddish, but often with some western elements. The latter is the basis for most Yiddish spoken today.

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