Comments on: Ten Yiddish Expressions You Should Know

By: sheila epstein hunter

sheila epstein hunter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:57:43 +0000

This is great! thank you. i grew up on LI (long beach and i’m jewish and long beach is 98 percent jewish it’s great!) i live in UT now and use my yiddish and people are like.. “huh?” then i tell them what it means, they think it’s cool!

By: CEBailey

CEBailey — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:39:31 +0000

I love it. Thanks!

By: Katelyn

Katelyn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:02:11 +0000

you know, “schmuck” actually comes from German origin, just like “spiel” does. “Schmuck” is the German word for “Jewelry”, which would explain as to why it refers to the male anatomy. Family Jewels, anyone?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:23:38 +0000

@Joani:

Ver veyst?

By: Joani

Joani — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:01:26 +0000

Was looking for the spelling of “Vi Veys?” which I believe means
“who knows?” Was just writing to a former Sister-in-Law whose
(my son’s grandparents) were from Chekoslovakia/Austria-Hungary.
I learned a lot of Yiddish expressions as we were family for 20+
years in New York City.