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"Mame Loshn" is not, as its spelling might suggest, some kind of embrocation. It rhymes, roughly, with 'summer washin', means 'Mother Tongue' and is an affectionate name given to Yiddish by the speakers of that language. Yiddish is the traditional vernacular of the unassimilated Ashkenazic ('German') Jews of Central and Eastern Europe and their descendants in many other parts of the world. Until World War II, it was spoken or understood by more than ten million people (two thirds of world Jewry) and still flourishes in Israel, the United States and parts of South America. Yiddish originated in the Jewish communities of the Rhineland about one thousand years ago and has retained its essentially German character. It has borrowed copiously from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Polish and Russian and has, in its turn, influenced several other languages, notably German, Dutch and English. The Cockney's 'nosh', the New Yorker's 'shmuck' and the Aussie's 'cobber' are Yiddish loans, as are such translated expressions as 'I need it like a hole in the head'. Throughout its history, Yiddish has, thanks to its humble origins, its scrambled pedigree and its associations with the ghetto, been and object of contempt and its qualities as a unique medium of expression were only belatedly recognised. Despite the current revival of interest in Yiddish, the non-specialist literature on the subject in English is meagre. In "Mame Loshn", John Geipel, author of several books on linguistics and anthropology, attempts to remedy this deficiency by tracing the story of this fascinating yet sadly neglected idiom against the background of Ashkenazic Jewish history and society.
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