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June 14, 2021 11:28 pm at 11:28 pm
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Nechomah – gets the prize! Yes, this is Soviet Yiddish where they on purpose spelled words phonetically to disconnect from Yiddish. I just wanted to highlight the point that there are many Yiddishes, this one being somewhat extreme.
Parenthetically, one elderly Jews who just left USSR told me, sadly, that Soviets closed his heder and he only learned how to read Yiddish, and he is sad his whole life that he did not learn Hebrew. I gave him a Humash and, playing a Navi, order him – read. He cried when he read “Bereshis buru” … Like a person who has a treasure under his house, but does not know it. Is he rich?