Yeshivish

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]

The term appears to be a portmanteau word of yeshiva and English, but it may simply be formed from yeshiva + the adjectival suffix -ish.^[4]

^ "How To Understand Yeshivish". Forward. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
^ JPPI. "The Yeshivish Community". jppi.org.il/en/. The Jewish People Policy Institute. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
^ Cross-Currents, Special to (10 July 2013). "The Yeshivish Brand". Cross-Currents. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^ Lambert, James (2017). "A multitude of "lishes"". English World-Wide. 38 (3): 1–33. doi:10.1075/eww.00001.lam.

[1] "How To Understand Yeshivish". Forward. 23 February 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2020.

[2] JPPI. "The Yeshivish Community". jppi.org.il/en/. The Jewish People Policy Institute. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

[3] Cross-Currents, Special to (10 July 2013). "The Yeshivish Brand". Cross-Currents. Retrieved 27 April 2017.

[4] Lambert, James (2017). "A multitude of "lishes"". English World-Wide. 38 (3): 1–33. doi:10.1075/eww.00001.lam.

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