LECTURE. About Spoken Languages: Yiddish by Justus van de Kamp

Name: LECTURE. About Spoken Languages: Yiddish by Justus van de Kamp
Start: 2026-03-06T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Gerard Doustraat 220, 1073 XB Amsterdam, Nederland

Schedule

Fri, 06 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Gerard Doustraat 220, 1073 XB Amsterdam, Nederland | Amsterdam, NH

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Join us on Friday, 6 March, for a lecture in the series About Spoken Languages: From the Rhineland to Mokum: The Journey of Yiddish, from Its Origins to the Printing Press in Early Modern Amsterdam
About Spoken Languages
Every language is a source of unique knowledge and cultural expression. Smaller languages provide new perspectives on the world. They give words to cultural phenomena, show how people communicate, and how communities form their identities.
In the lecture series About Spoken Languages, five academics shed light on a smaller or less-known (and sometimes non-standardised) language.
Cappadocian, Pontic & Pharasiot Greek. Minor-Asian Dialects of Greek
Cappadocian Greek belongs, together with Pontic and Pharasiot Greek, to the Minor-Asian dialects of the Greek language. These are archaic dialects that developed during the second millennium AD and further evolved under strong influence from Turkish.
About this lecture
What do the Bible in Yiddish, old Amsterdam printing houses, and the word mesjogge have in common? How did Yiddish — the language of home and street — come into being, and how did early modern Amsterdam grow into the center of the Yiddish printing press?
In this lecture, we take you from the first Yiddish texts in the Rhineland to the heyday of Amsterdam’s book printing industry. Through stories, prayers, proverbs, and early printed works, a vibrant culture comes to life — from living room to synagogue, from market to printing house. And even today, we still hear echoes of that past: words like mazzel, tof, goochem, and jatten reveal just how deeply Yiddish has penetrated the Dutch language.
Date: Friday, 6 March
Language of instruction: Dutch
Speaker: Justus van de Kamp
Other lectures in this series:
20 March: Cappadocian, Pontic, Pharasiot by Prof. Dr. Mark Janse
27 March: Catalan by Dr. Eva J. Daussá
10 April: Palestinian Arabic by Dr. Nina van Kampen
22 May: Frisian by Dr. Alexia Kerkhof
€18 per lecture | entire series €80
Student rate*: €6 per lecture | entire series €25
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