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Yiddisher

British  
/ ˈjɪdɪʃə /

adjective

  1. in or relating to Yiddish

  2. Jewish

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a speaker of Yiddish; Jew

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It was an uncomfortable experience for “a young fellow, still a rough Yiddisher boy from the Bronx, and a proletarian too”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2019

Now that Mrs. Meir has written her memoirs, this image of the Yiddisher mama as world figure�"I, Golda Meir, from Pinsk, Milwaukee and Tel Aviv"�dominates.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Why, that's a great friend from Borrochson's, a feller by the name Rubin what is one of the actors by the Yiddisher theayter."

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague

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