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Jews in Germany and Austria, before WW2, spoke German. Most Jews in other parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and some in Western Europe as well, spoke Yiddish, a language derived from an older form of German, with many Hebrew and Slavic loan words. German is written in a variant of the Latin Alphabet. Yiddish is written in the Hebrew Alphabet.
Many Jews living in other parts of the world, who had migrated from central and Eastern Europe, also spoke German or Yiddish as well as the languages of their new countries.
On the other hand, Jews with long roots outside that region did not speak Yiddish. Jews in the Mediterranean world descended from the Spanish expulsion in 1492 often spoke, and still speak, an old form of Spanish written with Hebrew characters called Ladino. And Jews in the Arab lands had Arabic, sometimes written with Hebrew characters.
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How did Mendellsohn teach German language to Jews?
Moses Mendellsohn did not have to teach German Jews how to speak German. They were already very capable of doing so themselves. Those German Jews who chose to speak in Yiddish did so by choice (as a symbol of their Jewish identity).
How did Mendelssohn teach the German language to Jews?
Moses Mendellsohn did not have to teach German Jews how to speak German. They were already very capable of doing so themselves. Those German Jews who chose to speak in Yiddish did so by choice (as a symbol of their Jewish identity).
What do Jews in Germany speak?
For a very long time the native language of German Jews has been German. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) a significant number Jews from the former Soviet Union (perhaps as many as 150,000) have settled in Germany. The second generation generally speaks German, the first generation a range of languages, which often includes Russian and Yiddish.
Why don't German people typically speak yiddish?
They have no reason to speak Yiddish. It is or was the main language of most Ashkenazi Jews and is largely based on archaic German.
What language do Zionist Jews speak?
Most Jews are Zionist, and they speak the languages of the countries they are from.Note: Zionism just means supporting the idea of a Jewish homeland.
Germans and Jews the same?
No. Not all Germans are Jews and not all Jews are German. But there are German Jews, as well as Jews with many other nationalities.
Were German citizens treated then same way as the Jews were?
People who were not Jews were treated differently than the Jews in Nazi Germany. Some of the Jews were German citizens but they were treated as Jews.
What did the German require of Jews in German society?
They had to hate jews even if they liked them (it was their job)
What did the German government require of Jews in German?
They had to hate jews even if they liked them (it was their job)
Was Allah the great prophet of the Islamic religion?
Just as Gott is the German word for God, Allah is the Arabic word for God. Christains who speak Arabic pray to Allah, just as Jews, Muslims, Baha'is and others who speak Arabic. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Baha'is and others who speak German pray to Gott. Every langauage has its own word for God, just like their own words for every other thing.
Does he speak German?
Does he speak German = Spricht er Deutsch
How do you speak in german?
In Germany you speak usually the German language.
