Sociolect of English spoken by Orthodox Jews in Yeshiva
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Yeshivish (Yiddish: ישיביש), also known as Yeshiva English, Yeshivisheh Shprach, or Yeshivisheh Reid, is a sociolect of English spoken by Yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox Yeshiva world.[1]
"Yeshivish" may also refer to non-Hasidic Haredi Jews.[2] Sometimes it has an extra connotation of non-Hasidic Haredi Jews educated in yeshiva and whose education made a noticeable specific cultural impact onto them. In the latter case the term has ambivalent (both positive and negative) connotations comparable to these of the term "academic".[3]
The term appears to be a portmanteau word of yeshiva and English, but it may simply be formed from yeshiva + the adjectival suffix -ish.[4]
^"How To Understand Yeshivish". Forward. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
^JPPI. "The Yeshivish Community". jppi.org.il/en/. The Jewish People Policy Institute. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
^Cross-Currents, Special to (10 July 2013). "The Yeshivish Brand". Cross-Currents. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^Lambert, James (2017). "A multitude of "lishes"". English World-Wide. 38 (3): 1–33. doi:10.1075/eww.00001.lam.
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