ZD: Yiddish was and is spoken in all of Europe where there are/ were Ashkenazi religious Jews, not just descending from Eastern Europe. Although Eastern Europe had many more total Jews in general than Western Europe. Maybe there were a few exceptions like Sweden, I’m not sure, as their religious Jews were relatively few. (Think Belgium, France, Austria, England, and borderline countries such as Hungary & what was Czechoslavakia.) You can add Germany as well, but their current Jewish population is not native or religious in general today – so immigrants speak Hebrew, Russian etc.; but they did speak Yiddish in the past.
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