By Ofri Ilani : Shattering a 'national mythology'
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In saying that there is no relation between Yiddish and German, he is also echoing a commonly believed notion among Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe, that Yiddish was a completely separate language that had no shared cultural connections between it and German