Multicultural, multilingual Shabbat
Channel: Jewish Language Project
Date: 22/05/2023

Eight Jews of different ancestral backgrounds who currently live in various parts of the United States talk about Shabbat. They all have similar traditions, including special foods and synagogue attendance, but they talk about them with different "heritage words" - words they maintained one or more generations after their ancestors shifted to English. Many languages are represented in this primarily English conversation, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, Bukharian, Persian, and Yiddish. Shabbat shalom!

This video was created by Alan Niku from the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project for the Jewish Unity Through Diversity event on May 21, 2023. To see many of the words discussed here, visit jel.jewish-languages.org.