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Yiddish is the "Patois" of languages of every eastern European country with any

significant Jewish population during the past 600 years. Dormant for a while

after the great Jewish migrations of the early 20th Century and the mass

exterminations of the 1930s and 40s, it's experiencing a resurgence today.

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