Editing Yid (section)

==Etymology==
[[Image:Page from Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary by Elijah Levita.jpg|thumb|250px|A page from [[Elia Levita]]'s Yiddish language-[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]-[[Latin language|Latin]]-[[German language|German]] dictionary (16th century) contains a list of nations, including an entry for Jew: {{langx|he|יְהוּדִי}} {{langx|yi|יוּד}} {{langx|de|Iud}} {{langx|la|Iudaeus}}]]

The term ''Yid'' has its origins in the [[Middle High German]] word ''{{lang|de|Jüde}}'' (the contemporary [[German language|German]] word is ''{{lang|de|Jude}}'').

[[Leo Rosten]] provides the following [[etymology]]:
<blockquote>From the [[German language|German]]: Jude: 'Jew.' And 'Jude' is a truncated form of Yehuda, which was the name given to the [[Israelite|Jewish Commonwealth]] in the period of the [[Second Temple]]. That name, in turn, was derived from the name of one of [[Jacob]]'s sons, Yehuda ([[Judah (Bible)|Judah]], in [[English language|English]]), whose descendants constituted one of the [[tribes of Israel]] and who settled in that portion of [[Canaan]] from [[Jerusalem]] south to [[Kadesh-Barnea]] (50 miles south of [[Beersheba]]) and from [[Tell es-Sultan|Jericho]] westwards to the [[Mediterranean]].<ref>[[Leo Rosten]]: ''[[The Joys of Yiddish]]'', 1968. Cited in [http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/yid.htm Kim Pearson's ''Rhetoric of Race''] by Eric Wolarsky. [[The College of New Jersey]].</ref>
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{{See also|Jew#Etymology|Jew (word)}}