Yiddish is a West Germanic language written in the Hebrew alphabet, the historic everyday language of Ashkenazi Jews, drawing on German, Hebrew and Slavic vocabulary. Britain has one of the most significant living Yiddish-speaking populations in Europe, centred on the Haredi communities of Stamford Hill in the London Borough of Hackney and Broughton Park in Salford, near Manchester, where it is spoken daily at home and in schools. Our Yiddish translation work is mostly civil and religious documents, birth, marriage and death records and community paperwork, for Home Office and UKVI immigration and settlement matters, along with court and educational documents and transcripts evaluated by UK ENIC. Yiddish has around 600,000 speakers worldwide today, a number now rising in Haredi communities after the losses of the twentieth century.
Prism Linguistics provides Yiddish translation, interpreting and transcription across the UK in 300+ languages. Whether you need a certified document for the Home Office, a court interpreter, an NHS appointment or a business meeting, our vetted native-speaker linguists are ready to help.
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