Quote Originally Posted by konny View Post
It is in fact an older German dialect. Native German speakers should have no troubles understanding it.
Can't second that. I gotta say (living in southwest Germany) yiddish has many similarities with the German language, but it's no way easy to follow a yiddish conversation if you were risen with dialect-free German as I was (hell, I have problems understanding the Fränkisch the people talk in my village )