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(de:Mauscheldeutsch) Yiddish accented German. Mauschel to fiddle[1]

„In seinem Erinnerungsband…beklagte er, daß er ‚keine rechte Muttersprache besaß als Jude in einem zweisprachigen Lande‘, er habe ‚die Leichen dreier Sprachen mit sich herumzutragen‘ gehabt:…drittens geringe Reste aus dem (ebenfalls geringgeschätzten) Hebräisch und Jiddisch (Mauscheldeutsch)

"In his book of remembrance ... he lamented that he had 'no proper mother tongue as a Jew in a bilingual country', he had 'to carry around the corpses of three languages': ... third, small remnants of the (also beleaguered) Hebrew and Yiddish ( Mauscheldeutsch)

The linguistic atmosphere of Kafka's Prague was further complicated by the presence of "Kuschelbömisch", a mixture of German and Czech, and Mauscheldeutsch expressions...[2]


  1. wiktionary in German
  2. Bogue R 2003 Deleuze on literature ISBN 0-415-96605-1