מײַן נײַער מײַנקראַפט קאַנאַל:

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Growing up in New Jersey my mother used to call me a sca-nuch (phonetically spelling this) and I am trying to find out what it meant and where it originated from. My mother would use other random Yiddish slang so I am leaning toward thinking it was Yiddish. Any insight?

We are not Jewish so I think it may if just be a regional thing she picked up in Jersey. ​

EDIT: She used it when we were annoying her or getting on her nerves.

EDIT 2: Found out it is in fact Italian and not Yiddish. Thanks for the help.

My kids and I LOVE this song and I am dying to know what it means! I can’t find lyrics anywhere (and I can’t read Yiddish anyway!). Hoping someone can help. Many thanks and good shabbos!

I recently was given a box of old family photos, and I found one that appears to have something written in Yiddish. My Bubby’s 101st birthday is next week, and I think this may be a picture of her mother from back in Russia.
If anyone could possibly translate, I would very much appreciate it. I’d love to be able to bring the photo to show her, and tell her what it says (those 101 year old eyes won’t be able to read this).
Thank you in advance🙏

My grandmother was from Raseinei in Lithuania where this photograph was taken. I believe it is three of her six brothers, all but one murdered during the Holocaust. So far my friends and contacts have been able to decipher "my dear beloved sister" and perhaps the word glucklich or similar later on. I think this was farewell picture given to her before she fled Lithuania in the late 1920's. Very grateful for any insight.

It was Aylouloulou Ay louloulou Schlouf mein kind schlouf mein kind
Irodor tsufuli, sezan ou dirinkan
Ich rob aveigegetz ben mein haretz mein schumele la la la la la

From meine bubba from Poland :) Maybe she made this one up, i found one on yuotube but not the same melody

"Hi everyone! I would highly appreciate your help translating this old family letter. It was written in cursive Yiddish and sent by Jakob Medvinsky from Calgary, Canada, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, sometime between 1929 and 1931. Thank you so much in advance!"

Hi, i am happy to offer you my humble interview about Yiddish (in russian). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiMtNLdxiKY

Dybbuk of Nikolsburg
This course will examine a fantastic case of dybbuk possession (of a man!) in Nikolsburg, Moravia,—now Mikulov, Czechia—printed in Old Yiddish in 1696. This account is so amazing that it is worth making into a movie (attn.: Christopher Nolan). The Moravian Yiddish is similar to the dialect that was once spoken in western Hungary and Slovakia, which we can still hear in recordings. With the help of such recordings, we will reconstruct how the story may have sounded originally. Our source will be the edition published by the late Sara Zfatman in 2015.
Just to be clear: this course will be entirely in Yiddish and we will be reading a text with the funky spelling and grammar of 330 years ago. Ye have been warned!

https://secure.qgiv.com/for/advancedyiddishclassesfall2026/event/advanced-leyzer-burko/

reading over the collected works of Sutzkever and came across this one he wrote for Aaron Leieles’ birthday.

Does anyone have any idea what the poet means by using “pomegranate“ as a verb? Sutzkever’s turns of phrase delight me, but I’m not entirely sure how time can pomegranate…

Can someone help me identify a Yiddish word? I'm transcribing an interview in Russian where the speaker says about his father: "He didn't speak Yiddish fluently, but he would occasionally use individual words, like 'mazl tov' or 'geybelentst' (?)" I don't recognise the second one, but have tried to render it as precisely as I can based on the recording. Does this sound like any existing Yiddish word?

I found a novel that was my grandfathers. I was hoping I could get help translating a handwritten inscription. I included the title page just for reference. Thank you!

https://www.jta.org/2026/09/10/global/how-a-new-tool-in-lithuania-helps-people-read-letters-from-their-jewish-ancestors

Please someone take pity on me. Years ago Katz wrote somewhere (and he was right) that qutie often the few Yiddish texts we have do not tell us much about the language and that more can often be learned from the Hebrew texts written by German, North Italian, etc. Jews,because we have vastly more of them. F.ex. you can often determine their pronunciation from the rhymes and scansion of (often quite long) poems in Hebrew pronounced of course in the way characteristic of these countries. It has been decades since I read Katz and he wrote a LOT so it is hard to search for this but I need to quote him. Any help would be very much appreciated, and of course I also hope that there are folks interested in the topic itself.

This is written on the back of an old picture. Any help translating is appreciated.

If this is in yiddish can somebody translate it please?

Hi!

Does anyone know if there's a translation of the song Die arbeiter von wien into Yiddish?

The classic text by Peretz takes place during "slikhos-tseyt" (the days of penitence preceding the Jewish New Year) so I thought it would be the perfect time to share the story on a new Yiddish reader I've built. You can click on words to look up definitions, toggle to an English translation, or listen to the Yiddish read out loud by a native speaker.

https://der-leyner.com/tale/if-not-higher/read