Show THE YIDDISH DIALECT A corruption of hebrew that eilau in every community where jew uve yiddish will defy the definition of the smartest lexicographer for not any one of these could state in a few words what constitutes the dialect which is perfectly clear to every jew it evades definition because of its mixed nature and because it is a different thing according to the latitude and longitude it inhabits the yiddish of poland and germany ia very different from that of the east t gf london though the latter ia base in a very large measure on the former in other words says the jewish chronicle it is influenced by its environments ron ments an expression of which the evolutionists are so fond the basin of hebrew words with their ancient encrust rations of who knows what which have clung to them in their wanderings through all climes and through the centuries still goes on gathering new influences day by dajcs it needs them and so yiddish ia like all other languages an ever shifting element only perhaps more so but all this we have known for a longtime it s perhaps not to generady gener aUy known however that this kamo yiddish in its turn a considerable influence over its neighbors and flowers the language of the gentiles among whom it dwells by many a tell ing and sig word and phrae |