{"id":1494,"date":"2015-05-29T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/16thstreet-knaidel-is-the-winning-word-by\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:37:28","slug":"16thstreet-knaidel-is-the-winning-word-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/16thstreet-knaidel-is-the-winning-word-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/16thstreet-knaidel-is-the-winning-word-by\/attachment\/1495\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_mnoiweABSi1r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/16thstreet.tumblr.com\/post\/51824567989\/knaidel-is-the-winning-word-by-david-p\" target=\"_blank\">16thstreet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>\u201cKnaidel\u201d is the Winning Word<\/b><br \/>by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., <i>Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you heard that a Yiddish word won the National Spelling Bee for Arvind Mahankali. Yes, knaidel is spelled K-n-a-i-d-e-l according to <i>Webster\u2019s Third New International Dictionary<\/i>\u2013the official dictionary of the National Spelling Bee. As you may know, Yiddish is a fusion language of principally German, Hebrew and Aramaic elements. Although there is evidence of a written form dating to the 13th Century the language is a living oral language with the dialects that are spoken in many areas having more German, Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian or American influences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not to take anything away from Arvind, but the question arises: Is there really one correct way to spell a Yiddish word?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YIVO, one of the Center partners, tried to answer that question. They created a work called the \u201cThe Standardized Yiddish orthography.\u201c The catalog (<a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org\" target=\"_blank\">search.cjh.org<\/a>) reflects imprints from 1937, 1966 and 1999. In addition to the rules, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/display.do?frbrVersion=2&amp;tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=CJH_ALEPH000004487&amp;indx=1&amp;recIds=CJH_ALEPH000004487&amp;recIdxs=0&amp;elementId=0&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=2&amp;fctN=facet_creationdate&amp;dscnt=1&amp;vl(4199461UI0)=sub&amp;scp.scps=scope%3A%28CJH%29%2Cscope%3A%28CJH_WARC_Projects%29&amp;fctV=%5B1969+TO+null%5D&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;dstmp=1370011715467&amp;mode=Basic&amp;vl(14296373UI1)=all_items&amp;vl(freeText0)=+Yiddish++language+--++Orthography++and+spelling&amp;vid=beta\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent copy<\/a>\u00a0has an essay \u201cThe history of the standardized Yiddish spelling\u201d by Mordkhe Schaechter.<\/p>\n<p>This work, in addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/display.do?frbrVersion=6&amp;tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=CJH_ALEPH000004226&amp;indx=4&amp;recIds=CJH_ALEPH000004226&amp;recIdxs=3&amp;elementId=3&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=6&amp;fctN=facet_lcc&amp;dscnt=0&amp;scp.scps=scope%3A%28CJH%29%2Cscope%3A%28CJH_WARC_Projects%29&amp;frbg=&amp;fctV=P+-+Language+and+literature.&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;dstmp=1370011779354&amp;srt=rank&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;vl(14296373UI1)=all_items&amp;vl(freeText0)=Harkavy+&amp;vid=beta%20\" target=\"_blank\">Harkavy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.cjh.org\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/display.do?frbrVersion=3&amp;tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=dedupmrg12460611&amp;indx=5&amp;recIds=dedupmrg12460611&amp;recIdxs=4&amp;elementId=4&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=3&amp;dscnt=1&amp;scp.scps=scope%3A%28CJH%29%2Cscope%3A%28CJH_WARC_Projects%29&amp;frbg=&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;dstmp=1370011840620&amp;srt=rank&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;vl(14296373UI1)=all_items&amp;vl(freeText0)=Weinreich+dictionary&amp;vid=beta\" target=\"_blank\">Weinreich<\/a>\u00a0dictionaries and the \u201cThe Language and culture atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry\u201d (This work is &ldquo;Based on an investigation entitled Geographic differentiation in coterritorial societies\u201d)\u00a0are some of the most frequently referenced books on Yiddish linguistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Yiddish, you can read an article in the YIVO encyclopedia by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yivoencyclopedia.org\/article.aspx\/Language\/Yiddish%20\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find recipes for knaidels in many of the cookbooks we have available. To learn more about cookbooks, <a href=\"http:\/\/16thstreet.tumblr.com\/tagged\/Cookbooks\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Matzah_balls.JPG%20%20\" target=\"_blank\">Image source<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16thstreet: \u201cKnaidel\u201d is the Winning Wordby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History Perhaps you heard that a Yiddish word won the National Spelling Bee for Arvind Mahankali. Yes, knaidel is spelled K-n-a-i-d-e-l according to Webster\u2019s Third New International Dictionary\u2013the official dictionary of the National Spelling Bee. As you may know, Yiddish is a fusion language of principally German,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}