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A Medieval Prayer Book Contains the Oldest Known Example of Written Yiddish
The Worms mahzor.
Written in the city of Würzburg in 1271 and 1272, the Worms maḥzor (High Holy Day prayer book) gets its name from the city that housed it for most of its existence—which was also home to one of the three original communities of Ashkenazi Jewry. The illuminated manuscript, now on display at the National Library of Israel, is written mostly in Hebrew, but contains the oldest extant example of the Yiddish language in the form of a brief prayer for whoever brings it to synagogue. Ilan Ben-Zion writes:
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A Medieval Prayer Book Contains the Oldest Known Example of Written Yiddish
The Worms mahzor.