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What is the difference between Yiddish and Hebrew?
whats yiddish and hebrew? like, the difference
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Hebrew is NOT exactly the "Jewish language." It is the national language of Israel, and also the language in which the Torah is written in, but since all Jewish people are not Israeli and the Torah has been translated, Hebrew is not necessary to know to be Jewish.
Many Jewish people come from Slavic countries (Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, etc) and from Germany. Yiddish is a mix of Hebrew and all of these languages.
I'd say that more non-Jews know Yiddish. For example, "Oy vey," and "Ay gevalt" are both Yiddish phrases.
"Zeis keppe" means sweet head (literally), and that looks like German, does it not?
Yiddish, also, is not necessary to know to be Jewish.
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Hebrew dates all the way back to the Old Testament. Yiddish is a mixture of Hebrew, German, and Slavic languages. It originated relatively recently, before World War II.
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Yiddish was once upon a time spoken in Jewish ghettos in Germany. Hebrew is the traditional Jewish language that dates way back to the formation of Judaism.
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shawneesrock answered one part of the question.
Yiddish is also another form of language spoken by Jewish people.
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Hebrew is the Jewish languge. Not all Jewish people speak in hebrew all the time but most of them know a little bit of the langauge.
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