I'm the last of the Mohicans of the great Yiddish tradition in Czernowitz," Josef Burg said.

The rafe is an attribute of earlier Yiddish orthographic tradition and that the dagesh is an adaptation of what is more generally a Hebrew practice.

Awaiting the Messiah In contrast to the divisiveness among blacks, the Hasidic Jews have Yiddish and Hebrew as common tongues and devotion to Orthodox tradition as a unifying force.

This figure, who appears in several of Chagall's works, has been interpreted as being either a Jewish wanderer from Yiddish tradition or the Prophet Elijah.

She was brought up in Yiddish tradition.

Today, the city's 14 public schools must teach Yiddish and Jewish tradition.

Reviewers sometimes called her prose postmodern, but all of it even her death-defying, almost surreal turns of logic was already present in Yiddish oral tradition.

Yet he separates himself from the Yiddish tradition, which he finds "sentimental" and "far from the great comedy or tragedy of the Jewish people."

Passing on the Yiddish tradition to future generations was a mainstay of his life.

Passing on the Yiddish tradition to future generations was the passion of Itche Goldberg's life.