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Yiddishland

Yiddishland proper noun: a region where Yiddish is spoken; the areas of Eastern Europe or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that had significant numbers of Jewish inhabitants.

Proper noun

Yiddishland

  1. A region where Yiddish is spoken; the areas of Eastern Europe or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that had significant numbers of Jewish inhabitants.
    • But once Dr. Levenson, who works for the Indian Health Service and wears a colorful tapestry yarmulke, has alerted the tiny network, it almost seems as if we have stepped into Yiddishland.2007 April 29, Patricia Cohen, “The Frozen Dozen”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023

Origin of Yiddishland

From Yiddish + -land.

Questions about Yiddishland

What does Yiddishland mean?
Yiddishland means a region where Yiddish is spoken; the areas of Eastern Europe or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that had significant numbers of Jewish inhabitants.
What part of speech is Yiddishland?
Yiddishland is a proper noun.

Words near Yiddishland in the dictionary

  1. Yiddishized
  2. Yiddishizes
  3. Yiddishizing
  4. yiddishkayt
  5. Yiddishkeit
  6. Yiddishland
  7. Yiddishlike
  8. Yiddishly
  9. Yiddishness
  10. Yiddishy
  11. yiddo

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