The Jerusalem Bridge

ברויגזbroyges meaning in Yiddish

on the outs with someone; in a state of mutual not-speaking · predicate adjective (indeclinable)

Also spelled in English: broiges

Illustration for the Yiddish word broyges

Three months of silence over a folding chair. The anger burned out weeks ago and the silence is running on its own now.

זיי זײַנען שוין דרײַ חדשים ברוגז, און קיינער געדענקט שוין נישט פֿאַרוואָס.

“They've been broyges for three months already, and nobody remembers why anymore.”

Do you have your own broyges story — who or what comes to mind?

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Published 16 September 2026

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