Tag #147047 - Interview #83426 (Piotr Levitas)

The language that we spoke at home was ‘loshn koydesh’ [‘Holy tongue’ in Hebrew] – it is a dialect that the Jews in those places use. Yiddish was different in different locations. In our place Yiddish was referred to as ‘loshn koydesh’ and was different from the Yiddish spoken by Jews in other places. We also knew Russian, because it was necessary to communicate with Russians, but at home we spoke only ‘loshn koydesh.