As Quoted from this reknowned German 18th-Century Poet, Playwrite, Novelist & Philosophy:
"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
"Wisdom is found only in truth."
Firstly, despite being widely associated with that of a Hebrew origin the Yiddish language has its euro-german origins . Paradoxically it is written and spoken in Hebrew yet has its roots in 10th-century eastern and central Europe. The term Yiddish itself actually came from the phrase 'mame-loshn' meaning mother tongue of German translation in contrast to the widely known Hebrew translation 'loshn-koydesh' meaning holy tongue. As there is a history of a western yiddish and eastern yiddish language which has very different dailectal roots. Take for example 'Schlep' that means to drag something which has its german origin from the word german schleppen.However it has been documented that prior to post-18th century it was primarly spoken by Ashkenazi Jews wihch then spread to european dilelacts. And that is when a western and eastern yiddish dialect actually developed. Whereby the western dilalect of hebew origin expanded and become the most prominently used while the eastern dialect became neglected. For most literature has focused on the western dialiact of hebrew origin while ignoring the eastern dialect of german and slavic origin that still in use today.
For the yiddish language has its many different usages and origins around the world not just of hebrew association. The Eastern Yiddish has three major dialects Litvish, Poylish and Ukrainish. While Western Yiddish includs three dialects as well that include Northwestern Midwestern and Southwestern parts of germany france and Italy. In addition to there being many sublocal varieties such as Judeo-Alsatian.
Yiddish is not just a language spoken and used by those who speak hebrew it has been translated into other non-english languages. For example it has been adapted to the Russian and Swedish langauge. As statistics reveal there over 3 million yiddish speakers around the world. This adaptation includes countries such as Lithuania, Israel, Ukraine, Belgium, Germany, Belarus, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Secondly, there has been much controversy over the standardisation of the langauge which continues. The complexity and different use in dailects might explain this and the prejudiced and predominant hebrew of origin relationship the yiddish language as it has become to be known. Moreover there is a much conflict between jewish and non-jewish speakers who use the yiddish tongue, whereby some anti-semitic flares have arose.
Lastly, you probably heard or/and have used many yiddish words with the slip of your tongue. Such as 'Schub' meaning to be idiotic or clumsy, 'Schmo' to describe a stupid person, 'Schmooze ' to interact, be social or/and have conversation 'Schnook' to be described as to made gullible very easily and the list goes on. Another very commonly used word out most yiddish words would be 'Schmuck' to refer to someone as jerk or which literally means in hebrew penis. Including "Yenta' to be a busy-body or gossiper another well known yiddish word. Go figure with that inference.
Here's a mouthful with some more unusual and uncommonally heard yiddish words to remember with their meaning given:
ganif -- theif
kakameyme -- crazy
kvetsh -- complainer
miskayt -- ugly .
nebekh -- little nerd
sheygets -- non-Jewish male
glik -- happiness
pisk -- big mouth
zay -- gezundt bless you
makhn ash un porekh -- destroy
shlemazl unlucky -- person
Just to name a few as there is a another world of a speaking with a yiddish tongue out there.
Epistemology sees these two branches of thinking as vital in determining the knowledge of existence and being. It is for this reason, why phenomenologist’s and existentialist’s support Epistemology in its quest for knowledge. But then there is existentialist phenomenology that originated from Martin Heidegger which throws the whole premise for Epistemology’s support for existentialism and phenomenology into doubt. That is because this strand believes that the ontology of being itself exceeds the study of knowledge. Hence existence and being becomes before the existence of knowledge. Thus ‘Being’ itself becomes before the being of knowledge. So where does that leave the Existentialist or the phenomenologist’s in a state of disarray specifically for epistemology itself. This because the quest for knowledge is challenged through the premise of being That is despite their differences they both support Epistemology's quest for knowledge irrelevant of whether being is an individual existence(Existentialism) or social phenomena(Phenomenology).
So according to existentialist phenomenology therefore I exist before the knowledge exists and my being exists before that knowledge is established. Which is in a direct challenge to existence being predetermined through the existence of knowledge.
Thank his Immortal beloved, whoever she was, had an everlasting impact on him and his state of deafness. For these are the two fundamental contributing factors to his composing succes. Because despite his tendency to isolate himself from many of the people he interacted with. And despite being presented by many as having angry persona and tendency for a bad temper. Including this being linked to him going mad whereby he went into a debilitating state depression in his later life. Despite all this negative presentation of his personality and the odds stacked up against him, he was a complete romantic and really understood what classical music was about. That is it was about the conveying the emotion of a moment into a composition. I think it was his complete loss of sound which gave him appreciation for the sound of music itself. For it was his inability to hear which drove to write his master pieces and gave him his ability to compose. Including how he developed the emotion presented in his compositions through his passions and his depressions. And it is for this is why he most best known for starting the Classical Music genre formally known as Romantic Classical.
Unlike majority of critics and feminists who disagree completely with this proposition. I’d like to think on the contrary. That is because he at least showed an understooding about the diffficulties and oppression women experienced by their male counterparts and societial insitutions that witheld such subordinating beleifs. Including specifically their status as women and the limitations that status within their time meant. It is through his play-writing ability that he was able to give women of his time a voice and action on the stage. Despite the fact that women were excluded completely from the public sphere which included the theatre stage. If you haven’t seen Shakespeare in Love or if you have next time you watch think about how differently he is portrayed compared to misoginist barraging my many feminst writers of the modern era. Even though it is a fictional account it seems a good sentiment to the idea that Shakespeare was more in tune with releasing women from their oppressions and is more of a pro-feminist figure more than we would like to admit . For example look at his female characters, Macbeth, Cleopatra …etc just to name a few that compete with the oppressing renaissance-Elizabethan views about women. Thier behaviours known for breaking and questioning the boundaries of femininity and morality that bound women the domestic sphere and home. This includes his strategic use of foreign landscape to combat the censorship measures being implemented by the government and monarchal figures, preventing such a social and political representation of his characters through his writing and performances on stage. To think he was able to explore messages across in his plays about women and men, getting his audiences thinking and provoking them to act, during a time of fear in social, religious and political upheaval and change. Shakespeare paved the way for his contemporaries in the post-17century Jacobean era allowing them to write more explicitly and more candidly about such issues facing women in more controversial and disrupting ways. For book burning was rampant within his era regarding any deemed in-appropriate immoral material, a reaction to the anti-Christian and anti-religious positions that Shakespeare and his contemporaries were attempting to explore through their plays.
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