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Yeshivish (Yiddish: ישיביש), also known as Yeshiva English, Yeshivisheh Shprach, or Yeshivisheh Reid, is a sociolect of English spoken by Yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox Yeshiva world.[1]
"Yeshivish" may also refer to non-Hasidic Haredi Jews.[2] Sometimes it has an extra connotation of non-Hasidic Haredi Jews educated in yeshiva and whose education made a noticeable specific cultural impact onto them. In the latter case the term has ambivalent (both positive and negative) connotations comparable to these of the term "academic".[3]
James Lambert describes the term to be a portmanteau word of yeshiva and English,[dubious – discuss][4] but the generic adjecive "yeshivish" itself is formed from yeshiva + suffix -ish in the meaning "related to yeshiva", e.g., "yeshivish people".
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