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Akuperma , we didn’t invent yiddish. During the middle ages the Polish kings gave refuge to Jews being expelled from the German states. The Jews, reflecting their German background, looked down on anything Slavic and refused to speak Polish. That is why Yiddish is largely based upon medieval German.