mar 1, 1000 - Yiddish Emerges

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Yiddish developed among Ashkenazi Jews in Central Europe. It was based mainly on medieval German, but it included many Hebrew, Aramaic, and later Slavic words, and was usually written in Hebrew letters.

Yiddish became the everyday language of millions of Ashkenazi Jews. It carried Jewish family life, humor, storytelling, religious teaching, theater, newspapers, and later much of Eastern European Jewish culture.

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