Anyone speak Hebrew and/or Yiddish?

[odin]

Does anybody know what the following means: Iisgadal rejiiskadisch schemel robo. It's a line from Karen Blixen's/Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. In the story The Dreamers the jew Marcus says this when Pellegrina dies at the end. I guess it's Yiddish or Hebrew. :-?

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'Yiddish' as it's called in English according to wikipedia :-).

[T_Bone]

It's the Kaddish prayer,  mourning the dead. " May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified"

http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/kaddish.htm

(Not sure about the funky spelling though :-), makes googling impossible, must be different method of conversion to our alphabet )

Iisgadal rejiiskadisch schemel robo == Yeetgadal v'yeetkadash sh'mey rabbah

[odin]

Cheers mate! :pint: A mourning prayer does indeed make sense. Yeah I googled every word separate and was surprised that I got exactly zero hits :-).

One question though, is it Yiddish or Hebrew? :inquisitive:

[T_Bone]

odin wrote:
Cheers mate! :pint: A mourning prayer does indeed make sense. Yeah I googled every word separate and was surprised that I got exactly zero hits :-).

One question though, is it Yiddish or Hebrew? :inquisitive:

Aramaic :-)

[odin]

Eh?

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Ah. Aramaic is a language spoken in the Levant and Mesopotamia from perhaps 700 BC until the present day. It is a member of the Semitic languages group.

Today Aramaic is spoken among about 500,000 native speakers(with varying degrees of fluency) in scattered communities across the Fertile Crescent.

Gods, I love Wikipedia :afro:.