| part of "yiddish"-S. ¶ number of speakers in Europe & Asia has probably fallen by 1990's to less than one million (from over 4 million in 1920's). The Yevreyskaya Autonomous Division (oblast), in Khabarovsk Terr. on the Siberian frontier with China, was designated in 1928 as an area for the resettlement of Jews in USSR, but only a small minority of the population is currently Jewish (of which only some are Yiddish-speaking). |