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Yiddish has it's roots in the Middle Ages. The "Ashkenazim" , or European Jews settled the middle Rhein and began speaking a dialect of Middle High German-- The word itself comes from German Jüdisch, meaning Jewish... however most religious and various other words remained in Hebrew, Yiddish developed independently with the rise of medieval ghettos. Today Russian also serves as an influence for new words...

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