How to Use Yiddish in a Sentence

Yiddish

noun

• The word means to fuss or waste time in Yiddish, though dining at this Jewish deli is always time well spent.
  — Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• His knowledge of Yiddish enabled him to be a translator for those captured.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
• In Yiddish, the word is basheret, which means destiny, or fate — a pre-ordained connection.
  — Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
• The principal spoke some Yiddish so my mother was able to communicate with him.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• One person told me that learning Yiddish through the app gave her a feeling of connection to her long-dead grandparents.
  — Imogen West-Knights, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
• Mason’s defenders said that the offending word simply means black in Yiddish.
  — Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
• To do that, Knopf needed the original pages in Yiddish, with Grade’s changes and corrections.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
• In the food court, knots of women are chatting in Yiddish, one of them celebrating a grandmother’s birthday.
  — Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
• People who know a little Yiddish will enjoy the sprinkling of that language's flavorful words throughout the script.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• At 111, the organization still puts on plays in Yiddish and teaches the language to people of all ages.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• It's peppered with just enough Yiddish to satisfy your grandparents and plenty of pop music to satisfy anyone younger than that.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Almost all of it is in Yiddish or in various, like, ancient Hebrew-Aramaic kinds of languages.
  — Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
• Her work is being translated from Yiddish to Polish, and a complete selection of her short stories has been published in English for the first time.
  — Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• My Russian is good, which helps in conversation with several shop owners, but my Yiddish is not, which is a barrier to conversing with customers.
  — Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
• So many of the sources are in Yiddish and Hebrew, and Eastern European Jewish civilization was wiped out.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
• Taking the form of a potboiler murder mystery, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is richly imagined.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
• At a time when antisemitism is surging nationwide, Yiddish — once nearly wiped out by the Holocaust and assimilation pressures — is making a comeback.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• The historic text appears in English, Italian, and Yiddish to honor the majority of the languages spoken at the factory at the time, and includes first-hand accounts.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
• Throughout the thesaurus series there is a recurrence of words in Yiddish, a language Bochner—whose parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants—was raised hearing at home.
  — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
• An article on Sunday about the rising use of Yiddish imprecisely characterized current Yiddish speakers.
  — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Jewish faith is predominant throughout the musical — references to certain prayers are made, Yiddish phrases are baked into the dialogue, and many Jewish traditions are brought to life on stage.
  — Carolina Del Busto, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
• For someone like me, raised in another country of immigrants, with one grandmother proficient in Guaraní and the other in Yiddish, my new country felt immediately familiar and welcoming.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
• On Reddit, a user in the r/Yiddish group objected that the album was released in the three-week stretch ahead of Tisha B’Av, a period of communal Jewish mourning.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
• The insular community’s yeshivas, which rely heavily on taxpayer dollars, teach religious lessons in Yiddish and Hebrew for most of the school day, and offer little instruction in English or math.
  — Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• Leftists like her also see Yiddish itself as an ideological mainstay of Jewish movements that opposed Zionism, even as Israel embraced modern Hebrew.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
• Built in 1903, the Sighișoara Synagogue was, for a time, the spiritual center for roughly 200 Yiddish-speaking Jewish families.
  — Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
• The tunnel in question, which is about the length of a bowling lane, became the subject of intense public interest, as the incident involved several Lubavitcher extremists, vile antisemitic conspiracy theories, and cops dropping Yiddish.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• English, for example, belongs to the Germanic group, which also includes German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Scots, Yiddish, and a few others.
  — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025