Yideg : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

''Ashkenaz'' eo ar ger hebreek a veze graet eus Bro-Alamagn er Grennamzer, diwar ur meneg eus Levr ar C'heneliezh 10.3.)

 

The Medieval Jewish cultural areas did not coincide with the Christian principalities; thus Ashkenaz included Northern France, and bounded on the Sephardic area: the [[Sephardi]], or [[Spain|Spanish]] Jews, who also inhabited southern France. Later, the Ashkenazi territory would spread into [[Eastern Europe]] as well.

 

 

While Hebrew always remained the official language of [[Jewish prayer]], the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidim]] mixed considerable Yiddish into their Hebrew, and were also responsible for a significant secondary religious literature written in Yiddish. For example, the tales about the [[Baal Shem Tov]] were written largely in Yiddish. In addition, even beyond the Hasidim, Ashkenazic Jewish women traditionally were not literate in Hebrew; women were the main audience of works like the ''Bovo-Bukh'', but there was also a large body of Yiddish religious works written for (and often by) women, such as the ''[[Tseno-Ureno]]'', the memoirs of [[Glückel of Hameln]], and the ''[[tkhine]]s''. [Liptzin, 1972, 4-17]

 

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