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Background: Yiddish is the language of central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish became one of the world's most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century. Along with Hebrew and Aramaic, it is one of the three major literary languages in Jewish history. The earliest dated Yiddish documents are from the 12th century, but scholars reconstruct an origin in the 9th century. | |
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