Yiddish
This alphabet is used to write Yiddish
What is the Hebrew alphabet?
This is the Jewish spiritual center which they face while praying
What is Jerusalem?
Hebrew is classified as this type of language family.
What is Semitic?
Ladino is primarily based on this language.
What is Spanish?
This term refers to Jewish communities living in Arabic-speaking countries
What is Mizrahi Jews?
The word "Yiddish" means
What is Jewish?
This is the current year of the Hebrew calendar
What is 5785?
The Hebrew word for "life" is also the numerical value 18 in gematria. Name the word.
What is Chai/ חי?
Ladino-speaking Jews were expelled from Spain in this year.
What is 1492?
Judeo-Arabic is written in this script
What is Hebrew?
The word “shlep” is a Yiddish term that means this in English.
What is to drag or carry?
Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot are all this type of festival
What are the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals?
Hebrew at times was only used during prayer and study.
What is a holy language/לשון קודש?
These are the people who shaped and passed down Ladino.
What is women?
Judeo-Arabic served as a bridge between Jewish communities and this religion’s scholars in the Golden Age of Spain.
What is Islam?
Yiddish is known as a "fusion" language. The languages included are:
What is Hebrew, Aramaic, German, Ukranian, Slavic?
This term describes land that is sacred and central to Indigenous identity and cultural practices.
What is ancestral land?
Who is Eliezer Ben-Yehuda?
Ladino songs often talk about
What is love?
This famous Jewish philosopher wrote his works in Judeo-Arabic
Who is Maimonides/Rambam?
Yiddish theater gave rise to this modern-day performance art form in the United States.
What is Broadway?
This Hebrew term for "repairing the world" connects Jewish spirituality with the Indigenous value of caring for the Earth.
What is tikkun olam?
Hebrew is the only surviving language of this language family.
What is Caananite language family?