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DEVELOPMENT OF YIDDISH OVER THE AGES
The creation of the Yiddish language about ten centuries ago was a unique occurence in Jewish culture and in world culture as well, with but few parallels elsewhere. The ultimate impact on Jews and Jewish life in Eastern Europe and all over the world was critical to Jewish life and development.
Perhaps the most important impact was inherent in the language itself: its warmth, its sweetness, its ease of use, its complementary relation to Hebrew, its subtle support of close family unity, its privacy vis a vis non-Jews, its vernacular utility for Jews traveling away from home.
The love affair between Yiddish and the Jews grew so intense that a standard form of written Yiddish was created, so as to be universal for all Jews, to draw them together.
The growth of the Yiddish language in Europe, and particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, was a major factor in the new direction which given names have taken o