Gothic, Yiddish and High German

[Yair Davidiy]

At 11:49 AM 4/30/2005, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:49:48 +0200
>From: Tore Gannholm <tore at gannholm.org>
>Subject: Re: [gothic-l] Gothic, Yiddish and High German

Avraham Polok, "Khuzaria", (Hebrew) Tel Aviv, 5711 (1950?) published an 
important
study on the Khazars that researchers still refer to.
He quotes from different sources claiming that Yiddish derives from Gothish
and himself suggests that the Khazars were a kind of Gothic offshoot.


>Hi,
>If your theory is right there must have been an exodus of Jews from the
>Rhineland during the Crusades.
>Is there any evidence?
>On the other hand Khazar is documented a Jewish converted state. Also
>documented imported rabbis.
>
>Tore
>
>On Apr 30, 2005, at 2:14 AM, Debbie Williams wrote:
>
> > Hmmmmmmm I've never heard of that connection. If you find out let me
> > know.
> >
> >  macmaster at riseup.net wrote:Hi all,
> >  I am curious if anyone knows anything about the Yiddish language and
> > its
> >  possible ties to Gothic.
> >  While the conventional model of the origins of Yiddish has it being
> >  brought to eastern and central Europe from the Rhineland roughly at
> > the
> >  time of the Crusades and makes it a medieval Rhenish dialect, an
> >  acquaintance of mine asserts that the Yiddish language has more in
> > common
> >  (in grammar, morphology, vocabulary, etc) with the East Germanic
> > languages
> >  of the early middle ages than with the German of the Rhine.
> >  Not reading Hebrew and knowing less than "ein bissel Yiddishe", I
> > can't
> >  judge his hypothesis.  Maybe someone knows more and can speak on this?
> >
> >  thanks,
> >  Tom MacMaster
> >
> >
> >
> >
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