The Levantini Podcast
The Levantini Podcast is a show about Near Eastern history, language, religion and culture.
The Levantini Podcast
Yiddish: Strange but Familiar
August 18, 2020
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Foreigncy / Lily Kahn
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Episode 34
Lily Kahn is a Professor of Hebrew and Jewish languages at University College London. Professor Kahn is also a scholar of the Yiddish language and published the book Colloquial Yiddish, which can be purchased on Amazon.
In our talk, we examined the history of Yiddish, its rise, fall, and resurgence, and also how the language continues to change and develop.