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In the following anecdote substitution of the word Russian for Yiddish kills the joke, though I am sure that many more Jews today speak Russian than speak Yiddish.
Yiddish serves as a lingua franca of sorts for Jews-- whatever they may be--but it seems to be diminishing in that role and is, I understand, frowned upon by the Israelis (many of whom can now claim Hebrew as a native tongue).
I had guessed correctly that his parents spoke Yiddish, and that that was the main source of his knowledge of the language.
Middle High German, more commonly known as Yiddish, is written in Hebrew letters, and, when similarly expressed by means of Hebrew letters, Spanish is called Ladino.
DRECNET [from Yiddish/German Dreck dirt] n.