| 单词 | Yiddish |
| 例句 | Frankie asked in Yiddish, after glancing around to confirm we were alone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “What do you want?” the girl in the mariner’s cap asked in Yiddish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “You look like a good boy,” the man said softly, his Yiddish coming out off-kilter and scratchy, as though it had fallen into disuse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her older sister was called Shaina, which in Yiddish means "beautiful." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The word Maven comes from the Yiddish, and it means one who accumulates knowledge. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s quite a language. Yiddish is a lot like it. Yiddish was originally Middle German. When the German Jews came into Poland, they brought it with them.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He used his Yiddish like a secondhand suit, something worn at the elbows, ill-fitting, and a touch unpleasant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t call my mother and talk Yiddish on the lady’s phone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Women in long-sleeved dresses, with kerchiefs covering their heads, many with infants in their arms, others heavily pregnant, sat on the stone steps of the stairways, talking loudly in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I’m sure Mrs. Wojcik has no idea she’s just been told to go to the devil in Yiddish, but from the look on her face, I think my sentiment is clear. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Others distrusted Jews who lived apart, speaking Yiddish—which was the traditional language spoken by Eastern European Jews— and following ancient customs of dress, culture, and education. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “My father doesn’t, either. At least, I don’t think he does. He thinks Yiddish is almost holy. But it’s really from Middle German.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When she tucked Morrie and David into bed, she would sing to them in Yiddish. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you would prefer, we may continue this conversation in Yiddish, although it’s been years since I’ve had to use it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I discovered later that her true name was Ruchel, a Yiddish name which her family Americanized to Rachel, which she in turn further changed to the even more American-sounding Ruth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The excitement spreads and the air explodes with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I feel loved like baby Rosa when I sink into her lap and she uses those sugar words that mean “beautiful girl” in Yiddish. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The second time I looked at the letters, they began to look a little more like Yiddish, and by the third glance, they resolved into an alphabet I could understand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The title would be easy to suss out for any Yiddish speaker with a half-decent grasp of the Latin alphabet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As they walked to Grandfather Mandelbaum’s house, Jack noticed everything—all the tiny shops and all the Jewish people dressed in black and speaking Yiddish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He swears in Yiddish, kicks the machine, then kneels down and reaches inside to try and grab it, but his arm gets caught. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She was muttering angrily in Polish and Yiddish, untying the strings from my wrists, her eyes darting toward the hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Danny Saunders screamed in Yiddish across the field, and more out of obedience than awareness the third baseman put a foot on the base. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Even now, I couldn’t discern a Yiddish accent in spoken English, when the accent was my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Some of the seats were occupied by men studying Talmud, reading from the Book of Psalms, or talking among themselves in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The second meal announcement comes over the loudspeaker, in German, English and Yiddish. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He’d call the little children bad names in Yiddish and make fun of their parents, too. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd came in quickly, and the synagogue was soon filled with the sounds of shuffling shoes, scraping chairs, and loud voices talking Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My favorite song is a Cuban lullaby, and I love the way Baba sings it with a whisper of a Yiddish accent. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Hitler had only succeeded in destroying the Jewish body, he shouted in Yiddish, but the Revisionists were trying to destroy the Jewish soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Some players at the Manhattan Chess Club began huffing that he was a meshuggener—a Yiddish term of disparagement suggesting he was “a little crazy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All the books seemed to be in Hebrew or Yiddish, and many of them were very old and in their original bindings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When they recovered enough to make money, she would drive them to the wall, haggling them to death, lapsing into Yiddish when the going got tough. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They live close to old friends from Cuba, and don’t speak English and don’t speak Yiddish like Baba and Zeide. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Reuven, you have a good head on you,” he said quietly in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, the few times I had ever talked with a Hasid, he had spoken only Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The voice was familiar, but it took me a moment to pair it to a name, because the only time I had heard Raizel speak was in Yiddish or German. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With their Yiddish, they were just able to understand his German. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always thought their English was tinged with a Yiddish accent. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until the final word left his mouth that I realized he hadn’t been speaking in Yiddish, even though the words had sounded like Yiddish when they passed through my head. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But others, also using Yiddish, referred to him as a gaon, a genius. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Because they were from the city of Budzyń, near my hometown of Narewka, they spoke Yiddish with the same dialect I did. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z My father used to quote a Yiddish proverb: Man plans, God laughs. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Dave knew only a little Yiddish and no Polish, so he did more pointing than speaking as he directed us from the port to the train station. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I think you dropped this,” a low, melodic voice said in Yiddish from behind me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He moved in a loose-jointed, disheveled sort of way, all arms and legs, talking in Yiddish to one of his teammates and ignoring me completely as he passed by. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had a moment of panic, trying to decide whether to answer him in Yiddish or English. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had just turned thirteen and become bar mitzvah when I started my apprenticeship at the Yiddish newspaper in Kielce. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I made so many mistakes that I was forced to melt down the error-filled slugs and retype them with excruciating slowness, digging my teeth into my inner cheek until the letters became Yiddish once more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I learned this Yiddish song from another musician on my transport here. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Broken plywood signs were scattered in the dirt like grave markers, their smeared slogans written in Yiddish, German, and English. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The rabbis spoke only Yiddish in the Talmud classes, but the students could speak Yiddish or English. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The old-time Jews, they’d spit on the floor when they said the word “death” in Yiddish. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger hadn’t spoken in Yiddish or English, but I had understood him nonetheless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The dialect of Yiddish spoken in Romania was a lot more similar to other Eastern dialects than it was to the kind spoken in Holland. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A Jew had to read the Yiddish press now if he wished to know everything that was happening in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They were both sitting in the living room and had apparently been reading or studying what looked to me to be a Yiddish book when we had interrupted them. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z During the washing process and burial, we would refer to the dead by their Hebrew names, and their Yiddish names if we didn’t know the former. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The yeshiva team was shouting at him in Yiddish to kill us apikorsim. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Vaguely, it dawned on me that he wasn’t speaking in Yiddish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z After I had finished jotting down the letters in Yiddish, my left hand kept moving, but it was only to repeat the question in Russian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I know what it feels like when people laugh at you walking down the street, or snicker when they hear you speaking Yiddish, or just look at you with hate in their eyes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, because I wanted something other than the murmured greetings in Yiddish to listen to, I began to hear, distinctly, the tapping sounds of Danny’s metal-capped shoes against the cement pavement. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I couldn't figure out why my cousin would want to exchange his Yiddish name—which in English means Joseph—for the Polish version, but the teacher's rebuff didn't surprise me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It's a relief to read in Yiddish again. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Yiddish phrase he used was, literally translated, “an iron head.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He spoke in Yiddish, his voice quavering a little as the words came out. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t realize I had spoken in Yiddish until the words left me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The rest of the title I could figure out for myself from my Yiddish, he told me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Look at that hair,” a boy said in Yiddish. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “No Yiddish, remember?” she whispered back furiously, before smiling at the bartender and responding to him in English: “We have heard great things about this club.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The yeshiva team howled, and again one of them called out to us in Yiddish, “Burn, you apikorsim!” and Sidney Goldberg and I looked at each other without saying a word. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Zeide was born in Russia and he mixes Spanish and Yiddish when he talks. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Transitioning seamlessly into Yiddish, she added savagely, “Do you have gefilte fish for brains?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Hannah could scarcely remember when Grandpa Will didn’t have these strange fits, showing off the tattoo on his left arm and screaming in both English and Yiddish. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Jewish prisoners who spoke Yiddish could understand enough German because of similarities in the languages. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z When he spoke again it was still in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “No, no, go away. Tell them to go away,” she’d say in Yiddish. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who are these people? Who are these people?” he shouted in Yiddish, and the words went through me like knives. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She had a little Yiddish song she used to sing to them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But all the Yiddish papers quoted him extensively. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a Yiddish phrase her grandfather used ail the time and which she’d never understood before. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He hit a few easy grounders and pop-ups, and the fielders shouted encouragement to one another in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mama said that the Jews had never looked on Jesus as anything but a troublesome Yiddish boy who would not work at the carpentry trade, marry, settle down and raise a family. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His father had read the account of the rally in the Yiddish press. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Those rooms were still empty, and sometimes, when I listened close, I thought I could hear Yiddish in the hallway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The yeshiva team exploded into wild cheers and shouted loud words of congratulations in Yiddish to the batter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Those of us who were Jewish spoke Yiddish at home, Polish in public, and Hebrew in religious school or at the synagogue. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But for those who grew up around Yiddish, its use here will likely strike a deep emotional chord. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Kaufman grew up in Odessa, in modern-day Ukraine, speaking Russian and Yiddish. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’ It was in 1989, and one of my teachers, an expert on Russia, mentioned offhandedly these Yiddish writers being rounded up by Stalin and murdered. Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It was matzo ball soup for the Yiddish soul. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z In New York, there was a Yiddish production, and there was a Spanish-language one in Tampa. Getting Close to Fascism with Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The exhibition includes Edouard Manet’s depiction of commedia dell’arte characters, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s cabaret performers, and Marc Chagall’s sets and costumes for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z A pig peppers his speech with Yiddish like a grandpa in the Catskills. With 'Holy Cow,' David Duchovny is finally, officially a novelist 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z I’m about to start my junior year at Harvard, studying theater, dance, and media, and last year, during spring break, I went to an internship fair and found the Yiddish theater. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z A seven-piece band infuses the history lesson with rousing period music from klezmer, Tin Pan Alley and various other Yiddish pop and folk traditions. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Land,’ at Baruch Performing Arts Center 2012-11-23T21:44:28Z Bannon cites “Judeo-Christian civilization” and even characterizes himself with the Yiddish term schmendrick, or “fool,” but Morris doesn’t ask Bannon about the anti-Semitism that is rife on the political far-right today. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Munby’s “Merchant” underlines the exotic nature of Shylock’s Jewishness in gentile Venice: an improvised scene has father and daughter arguing in Yiddish. Jonathan Pryce puts a new stamp on Shylock 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z He said he related the story to his mother, a fluent Yiddish speaker, who was then 94 years old. Vanishing Languages, Reincarnated as Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Her TV credits include “The Good Wife” and “Beauty and the Beast,” and growing up, she said, she was a bookish child, obsessed with presidential politics and learning Yiddish. Courtney Kemp Agboh Runs ‘Power,’ With 50 Cent’s Input 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Performed largely in Yiddish, with English and Russian supertitles, the story is simple. Review: ‘The Golden Bride’ Walks Down the Aisle Again 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z By the mid-1920s, New York was the world capital of the Yiddish stage, with 14 houses, half of them along Second Avenue. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z This revival — under David Mandelbaum, the troupe’s artistic director — will be performed in the original Yiddish; a reading was presented in June at the 14th Street Y. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Revived by New Yiddish Rep 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Yes, he said, he calls her “bubbe,” the Yiddish term for grandmother. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Presides Over Shylock’s Appeal 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z “A Bintel Brief” owes more than its name to a beloved feature in one of New York’s old Yiddish newspapers, The Jewish Daily Forward, a.k.a. Books of The Times: ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Liana Finck’s Graphic Book of Letters 2014-04-22T22:00:27Z A veteran of television and films, she was raised in Bayside, Queens, but picked up very little Yiddish from conversations between her mother and grandmother. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Of Mr. Thomas, he said: “He accentuates the folk-music aspects, and everything seems Yiddish theater, in the best possible way.” Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z I said, “Well you tell them, one, I’ve worked with Joel Grey before,” which was true, “and, two, I speak Yiddish,” which wasn’t true. The Role of a Career in ‘Fiddler,’ and He Might Even Keep the Beard 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z After spending a decade in Paris, she, her husband and their two children immigrated to New York in 1939, where she began writing for Yiddish newspapers. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Yiddish is so great because it sounds exactly like what it is. Pamela Adlon on ending "Better Things": "It hasn't been a piece of cake — but it's been a total joy" 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Puchner shows how Luther’s screed set the tone not only for his own grandfather’s portrayal of Rotwelsch as a language polluted by Yiddish that threatened German racial purity. The Secret Code That Threatened Nazi Fantasies of Racial Purity 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z At the relatively late age of 43 — though basically a toddler compared to much of a recent audience for the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene production — I finally saw “Fiddler on the Roof.” A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Yiddish, which combines elements of German, Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic, is a language of many dialects corresponding to the different regions of Europe where they emerged. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Bessie spoke English just fine, but her language of choice was Yiddish — I think because it was so colorful and confounding. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He wants the last word on last words 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “The first person we hired was this incredible guy, Eli Rosen, who was our Yiddish translator and cultural consultant,” Winger recalls. Unorthodox: behind the Deutschland 83 co-creator's new Netflix series 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The quote and sentiment are no doubt accurate, but the Yiddish is not. Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And there is a crime buried in its layers that's as much about culture as it is criminality, like Hugo- and Nebula-winning "The Yiddish Policeman's Union." Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue' 2012-12-13T17:42:53Z The film is in Hungarian, German, Yiddish and Polish with English subtitles. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Yiddish journalist Abraham Cahan noted in his autobiography that when he arrived in the United States in 1881, Jews were still talking about the case. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z We’re encouraging young artists to use the Yiddish culture and reinterpret it for the widest possible audience. Kulturfest International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts 2012-06-10T21:37:06Z He was born long ago enough to remember an uncle from the old country, who spoke only Yiddish, and laughed at the punchlines to jokes my dad couldn't hope to understand. Salt beef sandwiches, my dad and me 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But Yiddish is on the decline, so it’s up to institutions like the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene to remind us of its music. Review: ‘The Sorceress’ Casts a Charming Spell in Yiddish 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Instead, he used a jazzy rhythm and spoke quickly, in bursts of stammering digressions that mixed repurposed Yiddish with rhetorical turns of phrases that aimed for literary pleasures. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Instead of a chronological history, Dauber’s systematic approach samples Jewish history from beginning to end in each chapter, with illustrations from the Bible, 18th-century Yiddish drama and Lena Dunham’s “Girls.” Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “March of the Falsettos” is a chamber drama with a neurotic Yiddish accent. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Treasury, he's paid in nachas — Yiddish for the glow of pleasure that runs through elder hearts when they exult in their young. Sculptor's creative juices still flowing at 93 2010-12-20T19:16:02Z But when I saw the new National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene production of “Fiddler,” I didn’t make it to intermission. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “It was really awful for me. We aren’t a big family, but we have our mishpachah,” — the Yiddish word for family or social unit — “and our traditions.” A Very Merry Holiday Redo 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Her great-grandfather and his siblings were part of a Yiddish opera company in Poland at the turn of the century. Julia Lester on Her ‘More Knowing’ Little Red Riding Hood 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z A 73-year-old actress from Warsaw making her film debut in "Crossing Delancey" told him "In Poland, they ate Yiddish theatre with bread." Remembering New Yorker magazine alum Stanley Mieses, a Talk of the Town character in his own right 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z “Indecent,’’ which is spoken in English, Yiddish and German, features excerpts from “God of Vengeance” as it follows the play from its inception through its world tour and tumultuous opening in New York. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Presented in Yiddish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Having grown up in Port Jefferson, Long Island, in a home well stocked with Yiddish books, she was surprised to be unacquainted with “The God of Vengeance.” For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But in the past several years, there has been a surge of translations of female writers by Yiddish scholars devoted to keeping the literature alive. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Jessica Kirzane, an assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago who translated the novel, said that her students are drawn to its contemporary echoes of men using their power for sexual advantage. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z But the Online Etymology Dictionary insists that the Yiddish vulgarism actually comes from the Old Polish “smok,” meaning “grass snake” or “dragon.” Jay Roach?s ?Dinner for Schmucks? and All Its Meshugas 2010-05-03T21:51:00Z If you are not Jewish and know less than a dozen words of Yiddish and are nonetheless familiar with “shiksa,” then you yourself are an indication of how far the word has come. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z She joked that when the director, Leonard Foglia, first met Murphy, the actress already knew more about Yiddish theater than he did. Donna Murphy tries to balance stage and motherhood 2011-04-30T16:01:05Z In a thousand-year-old language like Yiddish, with many of its words rooted in the ancient Bible, how would you say “email”? Or “transgender”? Or “designated driver”? Or “binge watch”? How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Mench is a word which in Yiddish means “a particularly good person” with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague. 'Mission Impossible' Star Martin Landau Remembers Leonard Nimoy 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z This production is directed by Joel Grey, who does not speak Yiddish, and performed by a cast of 26, three-quarters of whom also do not speak the language. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Many of the compositions on “Yiddish Glory” seethe with resentment but emphasize triumph. The Devastating Resonances of Yiddish Songs Recovered from the Second World War 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z They gather for a Yiddish cultural festival, pray in a synagogue, play music in the park, and sun themselves on plastic porch chairs and benches. An Elegy for the Jewish Retirees of Miami Beach 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z For those who did, moreover, Mason's European Yiddish accent was undecipherable to Middle Eastern ears. Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Her low-register voice encompassed both mezzo-soprano and alto, and at this stage she was able to exploit her versatility in a wide range of genres including Mozartian opera, Handelian oratorio, lieder and Yiddish folk songs. Vera R?zsa obituary 2010-11-22T18:20:00Z Mr. Lumet spent a lifetime in show business, a path that began in New York’s Yiddish theater. Review: ‘By Sidney Lumet’ Puts the Director in Front of the Camera 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z To fight my ignorance and delusion, I had to douse the internal flames and undo the Yiddish curse I'd cast on my doctor in September. The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z It is in Hebrew and Yiddish, with English subtitles. Review: In ‘Tikkun,’ a Hasidic Student’s Visions Merge With Metaphor 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He was what you might call a critic-whisperer — sometimes a welcome interlocutor, sometimes what we who have Yiddish speakers in our ancestry would call a noodge. Perspective | Here’s to Washington’s Victor Shargai: A fan, a catalyst, a mensch of the theater 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z He created a work with a boldly lettered list of 24 Yiddish terms. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z The first production, in 1882, was the middling operetta “The Witch,” by Abraham Goldfaden, regarded as the father of the modern Yiddish theater. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The name comes from the Yiddish for "little square," as in a little area within a city. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Your ease with the Yiddish seems very organic. | Judith Light 2013-04-23T17:16:51Z Detecting traces of Jewishness and Yiddish in the world around him is something he just does, offstage and on, including in his well-received solo shows “Too Jewish?” Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z I was trying to remember some of the Yiddish, and some of the things that I had growing up, some of which I saw reflected here. We don't have a healthy relationship with death. Can humor and science help? 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The entire process had to be completed in barely three weeks of Yiddish coaching and four weeks of rehearsals. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “Menashe” is not the only recent addition to the corpus of Yiddish cinema, which includes silent movies. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The Yiddish title, denoting happy music, is related to the English word "frolic," and a frolic was exactly what we were treated to. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z Solomon’s accent is supposed to be Russian Yiddish. Review: Brothers Joined by Fate and Furniture in ‘The Price’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He and his family were summering at a bungalow colony in northern Westchester called Shrub Oak Park when he auditioned for a play there directed by Dorothy Delman, a Yiddish actress. David Margulies, ‘Ghostbusters’ Mayor and Tony Soprano’s Lawyer, Dies at 78 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z That Mr. Weinstein spoke no Yiddish is part of the cinematic tradition. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He took Fyvush — Philip in Yiddish, he said — as a stage name. Fyvush Finkel, TV character actor whose career began in Yiddish theater, dies at 93 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z A great-aunt from Silver Spring, Md., who spoke Yiddish with a twang, offered him an education about the area’s grandees. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z For a little while, I worked with a Yiddish youth theatre group. Young, early, emerging: Daniel Brodie, associate producer, Royal Court 2013-05-21T09:03:58Z At a recording studio in Tel Aviv, Israeli musician Lee Biran performed a song he composed from words penned by Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor Abraham Sutzkever. Songs give new life to Holocaust victims' poetry 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Bialik himself translated it into Yiddish to ensure an even greater audience. Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Then I hit the Internet and learned the word’s roots reside in the British Empire, not Yiddish as I always assumed. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Every Single Penny 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Created with the director Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” is inspired by Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “The God of Vengeance” and events surrounding it. For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Bruce wrote that he had been arrested ‘by a Yiddish undercover agent who had been placed in the club several nights running to determine if my use of Yiddish terms was a cover for profanity.’ It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The sombre, modal piece wove together recollections of Yiddish lullabies, Chassidic chants and a plaintive Polish folk song imploring the white stork – a symbol of good fortune – not to fly south for the winter. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z The Yiddish newspaper was, perhaps even more than the Yiddish theater, a sanctuary where Jews could speak to Jews, confidentially. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “This is our thrilling moment in Yiddish literature, this is our Dead Sea Scrolls,” said Aaron Lansky, president of the book center, which collects tens of thousands of Yiddish books and distributes them to libraries. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z There were 13 million Yiddish speakers before the Holocaust; today the number hovers at around half a million. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “Are there original plays being written in Yiddish?” Kulturfest International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts 2012-06-10T21:37:06Z This year, they invited a Brooklyn feminist punk rock band called The Shondes — Yiddish for “disgrace” — to join the lineup. Jewish groups argue over who gets to argue My new in-laws have a Yiddish word for this romantic coincidence – they call it bashert, which I think roughly translates in Yorkshire to “a reet small world”. How I married a world-champion air guitarist who turned up on my doorstep 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Yiddish Jews were one recognized minority group in the ethnic hodgepodge of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, and the only group whose status wasn’t consonant with a piece of land. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z With muffled sorrow, we read the Yiddish names on an otherwise blank wall. In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Other events on Christmas Day include the re-enactment of a Yiddish wedding, with members of the audience playing the bride, groom and wedding guests, that begins at 1 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 23-29 2011-12-22T21:06:22Z Fragments of a drama from 1911 surfaced in Russian archives and a filmed version of the Yiddish play “Shulamit” was found in Hungary. Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Kimmelman concludes the book with a brief history of Passover, a recipe for making matzah and a glossary of Yiddish terms. A fresh bouquet of spring holiday books for kids 2010-03-26T22:38:00Z I am Jewish, but still so young that I do not speak with a Yiddish accent like everyone’s grandpa in the 1960s. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: No, I’m not too old to run for president 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z David Mandelbaum, the artistic director of New Yiddish Rep, will play a role as well. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Presented in Yiddish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Some of these posters were translated into Yiddish and Italian in order to reach working-class immigrants. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In a neighborhood “crawling with fascists,” she writes, the sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, organized a celebration of Yiddish culture at their countryside estate in Naarden, about 30 minutes from Amsterdam. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z We would have a world of Yiddish literature. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “For Hasidim, Yiddish is not about culture; it’s about using language in a utilitarian way,” Mr. Rapaport, the Hasidic translator said. How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The Kravitz story cements the theme rolling throughout the show as Filler’s father perpetually longs to hear songs in Yiddish. Review | Deb Filler’s modest solo show at MetroStage tells true tales of Leonards 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z While vengeful lovers, demented blackmailers and unscrupulous abortionists may represent universal types, the Yiddish press also gleefully reported on specifically Jewish affairs — like the pitched battles between Jewish freethinkers and so-called Sabbath enforcers. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Wonder of wonders, he has never spoken Yiddish. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z That was true in the golden age of Yiddish speakers in America. How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Born in Philadelphia, the son of two Yiddish stage performers, Lumet served as a radar repair man in the second world war before directing theatre productions in New York. Sidney Lumet dies aged 86 2011-04-09T15:44:58Z While the shiksa of Yiddish lit is without a doubt a pejorative, she is not, alas, of immediate help to us with respect to the incident in Toronto. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z These collaborators provided a way into the Yiddish tongue; like many present-day Jews in the west, Winger heard her grandparents use the occasional slang but never learned it herself. Unorthodox: behind the Deutschland 83 co-creator's new Netflix series 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Their life stories offer a window into the evolution of Yiddish. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Grade grew up in Vilna, now Vilnius, the intellectually vibrant “Jerusalem of Lithuania”; studied in yeshivas but grew disenchanted with Orthodox Judaism; and wrote poetry as part of a fabled Yiddish literary circle, Yung Vilne. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z Once he got under way, he would sing show tunes, dropping in a bit of Yiddish—“A bissel of Bo!”—to distract them from the onslaught of needles. Dr. Brandt, the Lonely Showman 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Brooks himself played a Native American chief who speaks only Yiddish. Charlize Theron to saddle up for new Seth MacFarlane western 2013-01-31T12:02:29Z Max had been a brilliant and leading organizer of the Yiddish Bund, a humane form of non-Communist leftism that attracted tens of thousands of adherents in prerevolutionary Russia, Lithuania and Poland. Surviving Europe’s Horrendous 20th Century 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Gregory remembers how as an 8-year-old he saw Bellow sobbing uncontrollably after a bitter argument in Yiddish with his father. Saul Bellow’s Three Sons Remember Him 2013-05-03T22:50:33Z New Yiddish Rep’s staged reading is to feature the entire text of the “God of Vengeance,” delivered in its original language, with English supertitles. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Presented in Yiddish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The archives include documents in Polish, German and Yiddish, Nazi proclamations and Jewish appeals, ghetto ration cards, tram tickets, private letters and photographs depicting life in the ghetto. Memories in milk bottles: Polish exhibition 'shouts out' annihilation story of Warsaw Ghetto 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Each body part failed serially and colorfully, invariably eventually including her “pupik,” which is a Yiddish word. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: He wants the last word on last words 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing. Review: In ‘The Wanderers,’ Two Marriages and a Movie Star 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Kuper’s cover was blown when a rival Yiddish paper outed him as the serious novelist Israel Joshua Singer, elder brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z This ghetto became Little Vienna, filled with Yiddish theaters, cafes, synagogues and schools, until the Communists expelled the Jewish residents in the early 1950s. In Shanghai, Preserving Buildings Takes Work 2010-05-01T10:03:00Z “Doing this in Yiddish was part of the project from the beginning,” Winger says. Unorthodox: behind the Deutschland 83 co-creator's new Netflix series 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Among Yiddish mambo’s most exuberant exponents was Irving Fields, a pianist, bandleader, arranger and songwriter who made a winning contribution to the genre with his 1959 album “Bagels and Bongos.” Irving Fields, bandleader who fed postwar mania for Yiddish mambo, dies at 101 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z One is that the characters often speak in Yiddish, a language that was nearly extinguished during the Holocaust but is spoken in an increasing number of Hasidic Jewish communities. In Jewish horror film "The Vigil," a mythological demon manifests the trauma of anti-Semitism 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Yet don’t she and Daddy speak Yiddish at home? Jewish Pride, and Prejudice, in Veera Hiranandani’s New Middle Grade Novel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson It's a passage that encapsulates much of what the book is about: a discomfiting mix of lust and loathing, Yiddish and fascism, and, most of all, the joking and not-joking. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 2010-09-20T10:37:00Z “There is a tendency to paint the Yiddish theater as unruly, a wild scene, with rolling bottles and pistachio nuts,” Ms. Nahshon said. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Now it is to return for another engagement beginning July 4 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, again produced by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. 'Golden Bride' to Return for Second Engagement 1461-09-16T05:00:00Z But then Bloom’s experience of religion and in particular Judaism — he spoke only Yiddish until he was 6 — is radically unlike mine, since I grew up in a completely secular family and society. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Despite all that and the dwindling of the Yiddish press, Dr. Nadler said, Grade kept writing. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z She included a PDF of the census document, which specified that Miller’s grandmother spoke only Yiddish. She saw anti-immigration politicians as hypocrites. So she launched ‘resistance genealogy.’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z In 1997, Mr. Finkel, then 75, had a star with his name added to the 30 stars on the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame, on the sidewalk outside the Second Avenue Deli in Manhattan. Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z He was a student at Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia when he attended his first play, a production performed in Yiddish at the Walnut Theater. Charles Fuller, Pulitzer Winner for ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ Dies at 83 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Yiddish is the lingua franca of many Hasidic communities, but their adherents rarely read secular works. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z He met an equally neurotic fellow student with an even more mordant wit, Elaine May, whose father was an actor in Yiddish theater. Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies He almost convinced her to release a Yiddish single, too. “The Daily Show” wasn’t all politics: A look back at Jon Stewart’s war against pop music 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z As family members who grew up eating these dishes pass away, Kahn worries that younger generations are losing classic Yiddish recipes. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z After graduating from high school, he took a job in Yiddish theater in Pittsburgh just shy of his 18th birthday. Fyvush Finkel, TV character actor whose career began in Yiddish theater, dies at 93 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The grandson of these stars of the Yiddish theater, Tilson Thomas is the first to get at this core inner dramatic and psychological essence of the Seventh. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The archives include documents in Polish, German and Yiddish, Nazi proclamations and Jewish appeals, ghetto ration cards, tram tickets, private letters and photographs depicting life in the ghetto. Memories in milk bottles: Polish exhibition 'shouts out' annihilation story of Warsaw Ghetto 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “The creation and maintenance of Jewish culture, especially Yiddish culture, is a form of resistance.” How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The Yiddish show has been seen by one of the original creators. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Aleichem, who was born in Ukraine, is one of the greatest writers in Yiddish, though he is now best known as the man whose stories were the inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z “Very light, very amused, you get that really weird Yiddish humor.” An American Jewish Author Now Calls Germany Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Young Tony went to Hebrew school, learned some Yiddish, and was conscious of English "antisemitism at a low, polite cultural level". Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z If anybody invites me to do anything in Yiddish, I will say yes, because I’m preserving it for myself.” Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z And then he sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in Yiddish, as his wife wept quietly beside him. Scenes From a Marriage, Patinkin-Style 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Yiddish Club becomes one of my most dependable activities. Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z I was taught about Jewish continuity and the Spanish Inquisition and the Hebrew language and even some Yiddish. What Philip Roth Taught Me About Being an American Jew 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The New Yiddish Rep started to present plays in Yiddish in 2007. ArtsBeat: Wait Ends for a Yiddish Version of ‘Godot’ 2013-08-16T18:23:22Z It would be a celebration of theatrical power, an investigation of censorship, an elegy for the Yiddish stage, and a sly reimagining of female desire. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Grey next stepped onstage under the aegis of his father’s act, dancing and singing a Yiddish song he learned by rote. Joel Grey, a Broadway Eminence, Comes of Age at 83 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z When there was such a thing as the Joseph Papp Yiddish Theater, Mr. Hoffman was its leader. Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Her father, Paul, was a newspaperman; her mother, Beatrice, had acted in the Yiddish theater in Poland. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z The word “hamantaschen,” a Yiddish term, is a reminder of the Jewish peoples’ deliverance from their enemy Haman, an official under the Persian King Ahasuerus, also known as Xerxes I, in the fifth century B.C. Thinking Outside the Triangle 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In the main auditorium, a gorgeous, converted old Yiddish theater, popcorn munchers watching The Hateful Eight in 70mm were unaware of the experimentation happening below. Philip K Dick film festival: still dreaming of electric sheep 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z ‘The Golden Bride’ This long-lost, newly reconstructed Yiddish operetta is an immigrant fantasy that looks as fondly on Mother Russia as on Uncle Sam. Theater Listings for July 15-21 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z “The irony is the Nazi salute is the perfect greeting for the frum man,” he says, using the Yiddish word for the very pious, as he describes himself. What’s So Funny About Orthodox Judaism? This Comic Has One Answer 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “Grandma always liked the fligl,” he clarifies, using the Yiddish word. Perspective | My grandfather has carved the Thanksgiving turkey for 70 years. Here’s what he taught me. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A red flag in the exhibit screams “Down with the Tsarist constitution!” in Yiddish. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The son of Yiddish-speaking Jewish atheist immigrants who dedicated their lives to preserving the culture Hitler tried to destroy, Mr. Hoffman was steeped in Yiddish early on. Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Her long story “Envy; or, Yiddish in America,” for example, which appeared in her 1971 collection “The Pagan Rabbi,” is a masterpiece of pique. Emotions Haunt a Man for Life in Cynthia Ozick’s Tragicomic ‘Antiquities’ 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Many of the frames have Yiddish names, though “Lemtosh” just sounds like one. Rupert Grint of ‘Harry Potter’ Gets His Own Glasses 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, the only place where this shiksa still exists is among the still-insular Orthodox and Hasidic, many of whom either still speak Yiddish or borrow heavily from it. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z A popular Yiddish-language version of the show, put on by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, is running at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan through Dec. 30. Baltimore ‘Fiddler’ Disrupted by ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z She was in fact the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia, and she was just as loyal to Yiddish and Central European foodways. Cara De Silva, Food Historian Who Preserved Jewish Recipes, Dies at 83 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z My grandmother dealt with her experience of evil by becoming harder than a Yiddish consonant. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z This year is the centennial of Peretz’s death, and Mr. Kissin, 44, has recorded some of this Yiddish writer’s poems about love and nature. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Growing up in Moscow, Mr. Kissin learned Yiddish from his maternal grandparents. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z So all of those things were added after in the process of rehearsal and our going through our joint Yiddish vocabularies. | Judith Light 2013-04-23T17:16:51Z That it occurred in a Yiddish play, “The God of Vengeance,” by a Polish Jewish immigrant, Sholem Asch, adds further elements of nativist suspicion, of distaste for “the other,” to the saga. Review | How ‘Indecent,’ about art happening against all odds, speaks to our time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Although the play will be entirely in Yiddish, it is aimed at a general audience; supertitles will accompany the production. Yiddish Production of 'Death of a Salesman' Coming to Off-Broadway 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z A battered sign in Yiddish hangs near portraits of rabbis on a gleaming white-tile wall. The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak In one of their odder and more chilling moves, the Nazis occupying Lithuania once collected Yiddish and Hebrew books and documents, hoping to create a reference collection about a people they intended to annihilate. A Trove of Yiddish Artifacts Rescued From the Nazis, and Oblivion 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z And he can curse in Yiddish much more creatively than Levinson can. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “She is the Mexican balaboosta” — a Yiddish term for a perfect hostess. Matzo Balls and Chiles? It’s Rosh Hashana With the Flavors of Mexico 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The granddaughter of a Yiddish poet, Taichman wanted to learn why this play was so scandalous. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z This lively dissection and reanimation of an early classic of Yiddish theater arrives courtesy of the venturesome Target Margin Theater. Theater Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:14:01Z Though the younger characters speak Hebrew, those older than fifty converse in Yiddish, the language of the Old World. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Few directors would, or could, dream up the result: a tribute to the Yiddish entertainment common at resorts in the Catskill Mountains during the mid-20th century. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Presented with the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, the workshop will lead young participants in creating puppets from clay, fabric, wire, found objects and paint, and then performing with them on a mini-stage. Spare Times for Children for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But it’s been equally fun watching them wait for their standing order at the local Jewish deli or rendezvous with the family rabbi or exchange Yiddish witticisms at family gatherings. Transparent's new season: a deep dive into American Judaism 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z I’m a gentile fluent in Yiddish, and I play in Yiddish theater.” Kulturfest International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts 2012-06-10T21:37:06Z The new translations are stirring a smidgen of optimism among Yiddish scholars and experts for a language whose extinction has long been fretted over but has never come to pass. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z She was also a highly visible public presence at events commemorating the work of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, her maternal grandfather. Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z German, Yiddish, Polish and Ukrainian compete for attention, and the languages are markers not only of ethnicity but also of class and ideology. | 'In Darkness': ?In Darkness? From Agnieszka Holland - Review 2011-12-09T01:31:14Z “They lived in shtetls,” my parents would say, using the Yiddish diminutive for town. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Yiddish scholars have long had their own issues with Mrs. Grade, who denied them access to the writer’s papers after his death in 1982. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Joshua Z. Weinstein, the director, shot the film in Yiddish and often in secret in Hasidic neighborhoods. Review: ‘Menashe’ Finds Faith and Fatherhood Sometimes at Odds 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Many of the 100,000 books were donated by immigrants: classics by Tolstoy, Communist Party records from the 1930s, stories translated to Russian from Yiddish, volumes of Russian Jewish newspapers, and mementos. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z By the end, we would watch the dead troupe conjure the rain scene entirely in Yiddish, and, Vogel hoped, we would understand every word. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, this narrative straitjacket doesn’t keep Dauber, a serious scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, from making original points along the way. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The gong - like the Yiddish words and occasional expletives he used to pepper his speech - hinted at the whimsy and charm Cates brought along with his leadership. Gil Cates led with wit, charm and confidence 2011-11-02T18:26:12Z There are hints in the show of the roiling humanity of the theater’s personalities, and the kind of foibles that a Yiddish Page Six might pounce on. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “I don’t speak a lick of Yiddish, and our opening night was the first time I had seen ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Yiddish novels written by women have remained largely unknown because they were never translated into English or never published as books. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z I first heard of her bakery when I spotted her cookbook, "Yiddish Cuisine: Authentic and Delicious Jewish Recipes," on the shelves of my local bagel spot in Berlin, Fine Bagels. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Years before, a friend sent me a novel called Wandering Star about a travelling Yiddish theatre group in eastern Europe. Fiddler's 50-year stage appeal 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Mrs. Klinghoffer sings, with the Yiddish phrase for craziness, not realizing her husband is about to be shot. Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' is a compassionate feat 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Sol Steinmetz was born in Budapest on July 29, 1930; his surname is the Yiddish word for stonemason. Sol Steinmetz, an Expert on Language, Dies at 80 2010-10-25T03:48:00Z Visitors walk in to face a giant black-and-white photograph of the Grand Theater, which opened in 1903 as the first such venue expressly built for Yiddish shows. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Languages run from Amharic to Hmong to Yiddish. ‘One Nation with News for All’: Newseum looks at Ethnic media in America At the time, Yiddish theater was “a flourishing art form,” said Nahma Sandrow, a historian and the author of “Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater.” Preparing ‘The Golden Bride’ for Its Big Day 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z After a rave Off Broadway engagement, this National Yiddish Theater version of “Fiddler,” directed by Joel Grey, translates the text into Yiddish. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Along with Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic and Navajo, Yiddish is one of several minority languages in development phase on the Duolingo platform. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The show was a sensation in the first decades of the 20th century, and is a staple of Yiddish theater. Theater to Stream: ‘Spring Awakening’ and Audra McDonald 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z There is a Yiddish word, verklempt, that roughly translates as being choked up to the point of near-tears without actually crying. “Finding Dory” is more than just another Pixar cartoon: It’s a powerful portrayal of living with a learning disability 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z They are as different from their neighbors in the Yiddish Lower East Side and the Arabic Little Syria as they are from each other. Books of The Times: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ a Novel by Helene Wecker 2013-05-06T19:57:43Z Mrs. Doubtfire didn't go around speaking Yiddish in an effort to blend in with her temple. Tyler Perry vs. Spike Lee: Let's bring the Jews into this! 2011-04-20T20:06:00Z When I tell people about Jeffrey and the sock note, the term “beshert” comes up a lot, a Yiddish word that means destiny, or soul mate. How a Missing Sock Changed My Life 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Faye, your character in “The Assembled Parties,” peppers her quintessential New York accent with Yiddish words throughout the play. | Judith Light 2013-04-23T17:16:51Z Today, Judyism, like Yiddish, is little more than a vague cultural memory. Judy Garland, Gay Idol Then and ?Over the Rainbow? Now 2012-04-05T20:43:41Z Asked about the current Supreme Court, he replied with a single Yiddish word, “Oy.” Nat Hentoff Is the Subject of David Lewis’s New Documentary 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A few have placed their bets on Yiddish. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s 970 pages and billows with doubt, anger, ardor, hurt, pride, persuasion, glory and Yiddish. Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z In full rant, his Arnold brought to mind accounts of legendary performances of Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side, where the audience wept and sweated buckets along with the actors. ArtsBeat: A Flickering 'Torch Song Trilogy' in London 2012-06-13T15:21:13Z We get a taste of his crafty detective work, which brings to mind a Yiddish Columbo. 'Wiesenthal' documents one man's human frailty, tireless dedication 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z There are nearly as many examples as there are Yiddish stories; the shiksa, it’s clear, is bad news. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z “The idea we are putting forth would be an accurate re-creation of how this musical might look in its native Yiddish tongue,” Mr. Massimine added. Yiddish-Language ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Is Coming to New York 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Just as in 2013, the cast is working rigorously with the play’s director, Stephen Brown-Fried, who is himself Jewish, on mastering the Yiddish inflections and the family’s fraught dynamics. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The theatergoers in the photograph seem formally dressed, the men in black suits and bowler hats and the women in gowns and wide bonnets; Yiddish posters ask them to “help your brothers in Russia.” ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Yiddish words are another legacy of the family's Jewish background. Emil and the Detectives: Michael Rosen on the trail of a children's classic 2013-05-02T06:00:13Z “In any community where Yiddish was spoken, their names were icons. They had special significance for Holocaust survivors, and Jews from the Soviet Union cherished them.” Claire Barry, Half of Yiddish Singing Duo, Dies at 94 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” pursued the Diaspora to a Jewish settlement in Alaska. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z His friends, he admits, do sometimes call her a “yenta,” the Yiddish word for busybody. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball icon, reinvented as culture vulture 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Yiddish loanwords almost never show up in British newspapers or official documents, but they abound in other accounts of sleazier provenance. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Conversations were wide-ranging, covering everything from Marilyn Monroe’s acting ability to professional wrestling to Yiddish. Nora Ephron’s life lessons 2012-07-12T03:40:00Z It features Murphy as an actress in a spunky Yiddish theater troupe and her character decades later as an ailing 79-year-old grandmother in 1970s New York. Donna Murphy tries to balance stage and motherhood 2011-04-30T16:01:05Z “He’s got trouble with his kids, he’s got tsuris with his wife,” she went on, using the Yiddish word for “trouble,” “his mother’s a pain, we all could relate.” Liz Lange Lets the Sun Into Grey Gardens 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “Yiddish Soul,” a concert of Eastern European and American music and the centerpiece of last year’s KulturfestNYC, will return to SummerStage in Central Park on June 15. KulturfestNYC Expands After a Successful Debut 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z In German/Yiddish slang, kesselgarten became a word to describe a chaotic situation with a lot of people speaking at once. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The sisters played the bungalows and small hotels of the Catskills, became regulars on the radio show “Yiddish Melodies in Swing” and filled the Loew’s State Theater on Sundays. Claire Barry, Half of Yiddish Singing Duo, Dies at 94 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z I didn't know that it was a Yiddish word with a specific meaning. In "Pretty Bitches," women confront the words used to put them in their place 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z When, after making a splash in several European cities, “God of Vengeance” comes to New York, it is initially successful when first presented in Yiddish. Review: ‘Indecent’ Revisits a Play Colliding With Broadway Mores and More 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But he never worked in furs, and he soon joined a Yiddish stock company. Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Rather, it offers a kind of authenticity no other American “Fiddler” ever has: It’s in Yiddish. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z For one thing, English and Russian translations are projected on two panels flanking the stage, so those who don’t speak Yiddish can follow along easily. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In a handsome new large-cast production, presented by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, it’s still deeply satisfying. Review: ‘The Golden Bride’ Walks Down the Aisle Again 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “We stuck out like sore thumbs in LA. My mom has this thick Long Island accent. Do you know the Yiddish word ‘geshrai’? Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Yet Bloch was strongly attached to the expressive musical language of Jewish Eastern Europe and drew upon Yiddish musical syntax, as he did in this sonata. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z One of Mr. Kissin’s fan sites whose content he supervises, features poems of his own written in Yiddish, as well as translations of Russian works he admires that are not well known in the West. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z He was born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, the son of parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre. Sidney Lumet, giant of American cinema, dies at 86 2011-04-09T23:07:05Z Based on Mendele Mocher Seforim's classic short stories and detailing the touching romance between a blind girl and a lame beggar, this is one of the most emotionally satisfying of all Yiddish films. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z So whose dialect was going to be digitally archived as the Yiddish dialect? Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The show, put on by the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene as part of its fall season and a residency with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, will run from Dec. 2 through 27. A Yiddish Operetta, Once Lost, Will Receive Its Full First Staging in 70 Years 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Though the character was supposed to be Mulberry Street Italian, Sidney is pure Garment District ambition and aggression; Curtis' spitting or purring of Odets' aphorisms sounds like Damon Runyan translated into Yiddish and back again. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z This production, in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles, has been extended four times since it began performances July 4, and has been lauded as an unexpected success. Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ to Continue Its Run at Stage 42 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Visitors hear jumbled-together recordings of synagogue music, excerpts from old recordings featuring the “Jewish” Wagner characters and sentences from “Jewishness in Music,” read by a woman, in Yiddish. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z As is always the case with Target Margin — which has devoted earlier seasons to disassembling and reconstructing Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein and Yiddish theater — telling tales is a communal enterprise. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He was born in New York City, where he grew up speaking Yiddish in an Orthodox Jewish household. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z When I brought home a black classmate in sixth grade, my neighbor used a Yiddish derogatory term for blacks. My personal Michigan recount: The official vote review is off, but I only needed answers from one family — my own 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The ancient Egyptian pharaoh who enslaved the Jews was indisputably a villain, but you wouldn’t call him a shlemiel, the Yiddish term for an awkward bungler. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Diane Stiles, managing director of the Castillo Theater, predicted that a diverse audience will be drawn to a “Waiting for Godot” in Yiddish, in a theater known for its mix of productions. ArtsBeat: Wait Ends for a Yiddish Version of ‘Godot’ 2013-08-16T18:23:22Z Deeply suspicious of America’s loose culture, at home Addie’s parents speak only Yiddish, mostly to bicker. Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z There are wonderful photographs of Yiddish researchers working amid the old fireplaces and moldings. Take a Virtual Tour of New York’s Museum District 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z And he agreed to translate most of the opera’s Yiddish passages into Spanish after the founder of the company, Ulises Aquino, warned that it would otherwise be inaccessible. A Yiddish-Cuban Opera to Have Its Premiere in Havana in March 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z And the panel discussion held recently at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, just a few hundred feet from where Emma Goldman once roused crowds in Yiddish, felt kind of like a bar mitzvah. Franklin Foer’s View From the Sidelines 2012-12-05T22:06:27Z “Phrases my mom uses are not in Yiddish, but Arabic,” he said, explaining their different customs, “and our food is a little spicier.” Awaiting a Return to Israel, Hand in Hand 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z As any Yiddish speaker would explain, a matchmaker is a “shadkhn.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z When her daughter Sara was born, she made an effort to speak only Yiddish to her but gave up when Sara was 5. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z She spent more late nights there—nourishing the collection, or curating 41 gallery exhibitions on subjects ranging from Warner Bros. cartoons to Yiddish films—than I did at TIME. Mary and MoMa: The Case of the (Still) Missing Film Stills 2012-01-11T19:14:15Z “It’s all the Yiddish that has made it into the American vernacular,” said Mr. Kleeblatt, who is also organizing the 2014 exhibition. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z In it, a verse by Grade in transliterated Yiddish alludes to both his affection and ambivalence. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Slang might come from Yiddish, or it might come from hip-hop. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “It was totally joyous and totally frum,” he said, using the Yiddish word for devout. Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z His self-reflexivity rarely went beyond stories in which characters narrate their lives to an unnamed Yiddish writer who resembles but isn’t exactly identical to Singer. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z “I always thought it had an Eastern European Yiddish background, so I decided to throw in as many consonants as possible,” he said. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z “Four please,” she says with a thick Yiddish accent. “I’m a bad Jew”: Amid those celebrating Purim in Boro Park I felt more than ever like an outsider Jew — but I come from a long line of outsider Jews 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Not only was the “million-dollar smile” on Ms. Woods’s profile photo “true to form,” said Ms. Schafer, oddly enough she also had a good working Yiddish vocabulary. How Do You Say ‘Smitten’ in Yiddish? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z All of them worked in the fashion business – or “schmatte” trade, to use the Yiddish term. I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The Yiddish version contains words like “Gevalt!” — an exclamation of shock or fright — instead of the more universal “Help!” How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z We saw “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish, which was amazing. Meet Theater’s Most Famous Superfan: Hillary Clinton 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z “Inventions” was written in 1965, and translated, from Yiddish into English, in the late sixties, but was never published. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The opera is based on an epic poem written in Yiddish in 1931 in Havana. Review: Chutzpah? An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish Opera Worth a Schlep 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z I was drawn to the book by her use of the word "Yiddish" front and center. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Because she spoke Yiddish, she learned to speak German quickly. An American Jewish Author Now Calls Germany Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z He was born in Philadelphia to Eugenia Wermus and Baruch Lumet, distinguished Yiddish theatre actors, and was only a few years old when he first acted on stage and on the radio. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z There are also detours into African dance, spoken word and Yiddish hip-hop. ‘Ethel Sings’ Revisits the McCarthy-Era Rosenberg Execution 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The director was born June 25, 1924, in Philadelphia to a pair of Yiddish stage performers, and he began his show business career as a child actor, appearing on radio at age 4. Sidney Lumet, director of classic films, has died 2011-04-09T16:26:00Z While not much connected to Jewish religious life, he was fascinated by Jewish culture, particularly Yiddish. Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge 2010-07-19T20:43:00Z When I was a child they spoke in three languages: broken English, Yiddish, and pig Latin so I wouldn’t understand them, but I quickly picked it up. When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z They also reissued “Our Way,” by the Barry Sisters, who recorded American pop songs, including “My Way,” in Yiddish. ‘ ’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah,’ From Idelsohn Society 2012-11-18T22:40:23Z He grew up speaking Yiddish at home in Amsterdam, New York in almost unimaginably deprived circumstances; the family’s income came from Douglas’s father’s daily attempts to sell scraps from a horse and buggy. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Her parents, too, bucked the assimilationist tide to pass knowledge of Yiddish on. Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Kahn said it was essential for her to open a Yiddish bakery in the neighborhood, but can't quite put her finger on why. This bread is beloved in Paris — and a relic of Jewish history 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Produced by New Worlds Theater Project, a company devoted to revitalizing the work of Yiddish playwrights, this 1907 play concerns a young woman, her blind grandfather and a seductive stranger. Theater Listings for Nov. 28-Dec.4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He knows what the guards are saying when they don’t realize he’s listening; he speaks Yiddish when he doesn’t want them to understand. A Novel About the Death Camps, Brought to Vivid Life in Audio 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But Ms. Toren studied the language, and when her parents spoke endearments to her, they were in Yiddish. Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldberg was only a boy when his father introduced him to the play’s Yiddish translator. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z One of the galleys discovered in their apartment was a saga of a small-town rabbi’s family that had been serialized in Yiddish newspapers but never published in book form. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z But given a Yiddish nickname of iffy accuracy, he still prefers Yiddish a lot more than the lynching talk he heard growing up in Omaha. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z For a company that bops cheerfully from German opera to Greek tragedy to Yiddish folklore, a lingering sojourn in the Middle East shouldn’t come as a particular surprise. A 9-Hour Play? Sit, Eat, Drink, Even Fall Asleep to ‘One Night.’ 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z She was born, as she said, "into a kingdom," a princess of the Yiddish theater. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Written as mamelige in Yiddish, and mămăligă in Romanian, the dish inspires an almost romantic yearning, particularly among Ashkenazi and Romanian Jews. Why this classic Romanian-Jewish dish is nearly impossible to find 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z His grandparents were mainstays of the Yiddish theater, at times performing from the Sholom Aleichem stories that became “Fiddler on the Roof.” Michael C. Bernardi Channels His Father for a Day as Tevye in ‘Fiddler’ 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z According to Portnoy, “nearly every great Yiddish writer was also, at some point in his or her career, a journalist.” The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “Fiddler” is at once timeless and a product of its time, but the extent to which it departed from its original source material, the Yiddish stories of Sholem Aleichem, goes mostly unexamined. ‘Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles’ Review: Inside a Broadway … Tradition! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z I always considered this, in tone and syntax, to be the most explicitly Yiddish of their lyrics, and assumed that Horovitz, who delivers the line on the record, was the one who wrote it. A Capacious New History of the Beastie Boys by the Two Who Remain 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z After allowing Yiddish writers and intellectuals to thrive in the Soviet Union, Stalin grew paranoid and decided that Soviet Jews posed a danger to his regime. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The event, part of KulturfestNYC, a citywide celebration of Jewish performing arts, will acquaint children ages 4 to 10 with classic stories from the Yiddish stage. Spare Times for Children for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z When I asked him why, he said it was his mitzvah, a Yiddish word that means doing a good deed without expecting anything in return. Rant & Rave: Not enough parking at Stevens Pass 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z SUN, WED Seattle Jewish Chorale interactive, family-friendly concert featuring familiar and unusual holiday songs in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino for all to learn what Hanukkah is about, 3 p.m. Community Datebook calendar 2011-12-15T20:59:07Z Yiddish was the language of the street and small home-grown businesses, bakeries and factories flourished. A literary tour of Mordecai Richler's Montreal 2011-01-11T11:27:00Z In the bathroom area, there are framed photos and posters of old Yiddish theater stars, a nod to the deli’s original location in the heart of the now-vanished Yiddish theater district. A Deli Where Rye Comes in Slices and in a Glass 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z In Week 1272 we asked for updated curses in the Yiddish tradition. Style Invitational Week 1276: What 4 — a limerick contest 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z There aren't enough creative Yiddish insults in the world to adequately express how much I hate Adam Sandler's "Eight Crazy Nights." Jews deserve a better Hanukkah movie than Adam Sandler’s “Eight Crazy Nights” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Is there is a distinctly Jewish art today, and what is its connection to Yiddish?” Kulturfest International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts 2012-06-10T21:37:06Z When he was 57, Mr. Richmond happened upon an 800-page memorial book, written mostly in Yiddish and published privately in Israel in 1968 by Jews who used to live in Konin. Theo Richmond, Who Revived the Past in a Polish Shtetl, Dies at 93 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z These translators believe that the newly translated novels by women will enrich the teaching of Yiddish. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Any New Yorker will absorb a certain amount of Yiddish — by inclination, by accident, by appetite. Review: ‘The Sorceress’ Casts a Charming Spell in Yiddish 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The first pages of “Oreo” tell you a lot of what you need to know about this novel’s comic tone and the ways Ms. Ross stirs Yiddish into black vernacular to barbed effect. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z They are also being read by students at the nation’s two dozen campuses with Yiddish programs. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Yiddish was, at most, the language of Ashkenazi Jews. The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review 2013-04-18T09:01:01Z An ordained rabbi, Mr. Steinmetz was a particular authority on Yiddish, in all its kvetchy beauty. Sol Steinmetz, an Expert on Language, Dies at 80 2010-10-25T03:48:00Z The Signature Theater Off Broadway will have a revival of “Incident at Vichy” later in its season, and New Yiddish Rep is reviving its “Death of a Salesman.” 'Crucible' Revival, With Whishaw and Okonedo, Sets Broadway Opening 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Save for a brief introduction by the show’s ringmaster, the entire production is in Yiddish, with supertitles in English and Russian. Theater Review: ‘The Megile of Itzik Manger,’ by National Yiddish Theater 2013-05-03T20:57:55Z Most prominently, there remains the Yiddish Art Theater, now called Village East Cinema, at the southwest corner of 12th Street. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z For “Kelim,” the trio Nigunim interpolated Yiddish lyrics jokingly described by the trumpeter Frank London in terms of planning a menu for the Messiah’s return. Music Review: John Zorn and Masada Begin a New Chapter 2014-03-20T22:05:01Z She plucks phrases meaningful to her from the collective memory banks — of musicals, Yiddish, movies — and renders them in the style of recognized male artists she both admires and tries to one-up. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z There was no schnorring in the family,” she said, using the Yiddish word for mooching. After Work With: For Joy Behar, It?s Lights, Cameras, Accent (and Opinion) 2010-07-09T19:25:00Z Some of these posters were translated into Yiddish, not Hebrew. From Greenwich Village to the Nation, Leading the Push for Women’s Rights 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z He explored his Jewish heritage in projects like “The Golden Age of 2nd Avenue,” a history of Yiddish theater in New York, and the Peabody Award-winning “Heritage: Civilization of the Jews.” Morton Silverstein, Documentarian Who Explored Social Ills, Dies at 86 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I remember my paternal grandmother, but she only spoke Yiddish so communication was an issue. Herb Alpert: ‘If someone needed my father’s help, he was always there for them’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Although Yiddish is alive and well among the burgeoning ranks of Hasidim, its use is declining among more secular Jews as Holocaust refugees and the Lower East Side immigrant generation die out. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z "I never prayed or fasted on Yom Kippur," said my father in his lilting Yiddish yarn voice. Why my father fasted on Yom Kippur: On survival, memory, and the power of a family story 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Morgan Bassichis always brings the same generous energy to a performance, whether it’s a self-reflective stand-up set or leading a crowd in Yiddish protest songs. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Yiddish journalists were showboats, garnishing tabloid sensationalism with literary jokes and religious references. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z So naturally, we all figured that when you got old, you developed a Yiddish accent. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Your call is unimportant to us 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z All the more so because both Herschel and Ben are played by Seth Rogen, who does the bewhiskered Yiddish thing and the diffident millennial thing with equal craftiness. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “The Yiddish has much more muscularity,” he said. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Can this bold new gal be transformed into an authentic Yiddish dialect comedienne? ArtsBeat: Hello, Lauren! A Former Fanny Brice on the New 'Funny Girl' in Town 2011-08-05T15:15:59Z The crazy thing is that my husband saw that they were doing this Yiddish “Fiddler.” The Role of a Career in ‘Fiddler,’ and He Might Even Keep the Beard 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Directed by David Winitsky and produced by the New Worlds Theater Project, whose mission is to keep Yiddish theater vital by presenting plays in English, this staging often falls short. | 'Under the Cross': Religion and Family at Odds (With Blacks Playing Jews) 2011-06-13T21:57:52Z Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis’s post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: “If you are going to eat pork,” as the Yiddish proverb goes, “let the juices run down your beard.” Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z His first contact with show business came through his parents, who formed a community theater in Edmonton to present plays in Yiddish. Arthur Hiller, ‘Love Story’ Director and Box-Office Magnet, Dies at 92 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The first book Harold read was an anthology of Yiddish poetry. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community is one that’s been largely unexplored on the big screen, and this highly acclaimed new Yiddish language film is driven by a desire to provide an authentic look inside. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z I was writing a little bit in Yiddish, I was writing a little bit in Hebrew, but I was trying to write in English and it was very frustrating to me. Autism in the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism: “There were superstitions and things that God knows how many other mothers had to deal with” 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z But as the new arrivals moved into the middle class and to the suburbs and away from their mother tongue, Yiddish theater declined. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “This is your last Yiddish word for the day,” she said. Rupert Grint of ‘Harry Potter’ Gets His Own Glasses 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The artist grew up speaking Yiddish in an Orthodox household in a Bronx tenement. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The production is by New Worlds Theater Project, which specializes in English adaptations of Yiddish works. ‘On the Other Side of the River,’ Translated From Yiddish 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died at age 98. 'Fiddler on the Roof' writer Stein, 98, dies in NY 2010-10-26T00:51:00Z Ravel's vividly contrasting Two Hebrew Melodies followed, one a solemn Hebrew setting of Kaddish, the other a Yiddish song referring lightly to life's "eternal enigma". Magdalena Kožená – review 2013-05-13T08:39:57Z “Two Feelings” had been serialized in The Yiddish Forward in 1934 and then forgotten. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z There are evocations of home and work life, the tools of tailors, an interactive karaoke version of Yiddish songs and a mock London studio of a famous Jewish wedding photographer of the 1930s. Museum Review: Where the Jewish Star Meets the Union Jack 2010-03-16T22:18:00Z Adler — who was a star of the Yiddish theater, the Group Theater and Broadway and, fleetingly, a player of several stripes in Hollywood, before devoting herself to teaching — was a tall woman to begin with. Books of The Times: ‘Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights,’ Lectures 2012-08-30T14:03:07Z “Simon drums, Puck plays the violin and Jaap builds Kathinka a little piano. Lien uses the death mask for a Yiddish story.” How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Making “Nuclear Family” helped her to work through her own history and what she calls her own “mishegoss,” a Yiddish word for craziness. In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In 1964, as Yiddish theater was dying, he was hired for the touring company of the Broadway hit “Fiddler on the Roof.” Fyvush Finkel, TV character actor whose career began in Yiddish theater, dies at 93 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z And Shakespeare was a staple of Second Avenue back in the glory days of the Yiddish theater. | 'Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish': Love Speaks in Every Language 2011-07-08T02:42:00Z Mr. Finkel savored his memories of the Yiddish theater and loved to entertain interviewers with stories from that lost world. Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z When this reporter admitted she didn't understand the Yiddish reference, he teased her for not being Jewish enough, then allowed the interview to continue for another 30 minutes. Gil Cates led with wit, charm and confidence 2011-11-02T18:26:12Z And with luck and an angel or two, the National Yiddish Theatre, which brought so many of the show’s alums together last week, will get to celebrate its 100th birthday. 50th anniversary of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ reunites Tevye’s many daughters Others argued that Central Yiddish, which is most widely spoken, made more sense. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Describing his affinity for Yiddish verse recently, the pianist Evgeny Kissin closed his eyes, bowed his head slightly and in a mellifluous, expressive baritone began to recite a poem from memory. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Why were British intelligence agents so concerned about Yiddish during the American Revolution? “The same rhetoric you hear from religious anti-vaxxers today are the arguments made against Cotton Mather”: Peter Manseau 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z He also sang in a choir behind the famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, and began pecking out popular songs and Yiddish vaudeville tunes. Irving Fields, Composer Who Infused Songs With Latin Rhythms, Dies at 101 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Judt's grandparents had all been Yiddish speakers from eastern Europe; his father had reached Britain by way of Belgium, and worked as a hairdresser among other occupations. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z A common occurrence among Israelis who immigrate to the U.S. is that they begin speaking Yiddish, and, in the case of Arabs, it might sound comical! An Exchange Between Etgar Keret and Sayed Kashua 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z She finds inspiration at the Metropolitan Museum; he translates an obscure Yiddish writer for fun. ‘Sabbath Girl’ Review: A Meet-Cute with Art and Knishes 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The recent books have mostly been published by academic presses in small runs, many of them financed by fellowships and stipends from the Yiddish Book Center. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Modern Hebrew drew not only from earlier forms of the language but from Polish, Yiddish, Russian, and various dialects of Arabic. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s just us two and one other girl for a while, learning to code and make our own websites, and after a while she says, you should come to Yiddish Club too. Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Though her bit about Elizabeth Taylor as a rabbi is great, too often what the script calls a “cute story” — plumped with Yiddish and capped with an epigram — turns out sadly to be just that. Review: Abzug and Fierstein, on the Same Ticket in ‘Bella Bella’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z I watch the guy all the time; he says three jokes and if the joke doesn't kill, he'll say something Yiddish. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z A prodigiously talented musician, also a pianist and composer, Mr. Thomas, 75, was born in Los Angeles to a family with a rich heritage in the American Yiddish theater. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z He began recording albums of folk songs for the Elektra label in 1955, shortly after he arrived in the United States, singing in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, medieval Spanish, Zulu and English, among other languages. Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z But this longstanding Broadway musical, based on stories about a weary Jewish dairyman and his family, and written by the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, is a global favorite. A soulful, flavorful ‘Fiddler’ at Village 2012-11-14T21:43:13Z Yiddish is, after all, called the mamaloshen — mother’s tongue — and a woman’s perspective, they said, has long been missing. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Scorsese cited hallmarks of Lewis’s artistry, and Lewis—only rarely bursting out with anarchic Yiddish yawps—spoke frankly about the way he worked. Jerry Lewis the Auteur 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In fact I grew up in the Yiddish theater, and the Catskills were my training ground. ArtsBeat: A Stage ?Funny Girl? on Casting That Role 2011-06-30T16:36:22Z In the elevator, Levit told a final joke, in his best Yiddish accent. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z If you add to that Beckmesser's music and language, which Paul Lawrence Rose alleges are clear parodies of Jewish cantorial melody, and of Yiddish, the challenge it poses for the modern producer become stark. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z Memorized a few Yiddish words, my drink order, how that Smiths song goes. Perspective | I’m dating a conspiracy theorist. But it feels like I’m the one going crazy. 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z “God of Vengeance,” the 1920s Yiddish play that is currently the subject of the Off Broadway drama “Indecent,” will be revived in its original language by New Yiddish Rep for two performances this June. ‘God of Vengeance’ to Be Presented in Yiddish 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z New Yiddish Rep will bring an updated Yiddish production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” to New York this October. Yiddish Production of 'Death of a Salesman' Coming to Off-Broadway 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z "To see here the street name in Hebrew language, Yiddish language is very moving," said Amir Moimon, Israel's ambassador to Lithuania. Ethnic street signs raise old tensions over identity in Lithuania 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z His children are in their 20s and call Harris “Momala,” a play on her name and a Yiddish word for “little mother.” Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug, to give up job to help his wife 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Grey had the actors perform the roles in English first, then in their still-unpolished Yiddish. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z I began reconnecting to my Jewish heritage, especially with that book and then culminating with “Yiddish Policemen’s Union.” Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z He worked as a manager for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and wrote plays and essays in Yiddish. Cara De Silva, Food Historian Who Preserved Jewish Recipes, Dies at 83 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play “God of Vengeance” at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. L. Peretz, told him to burn it. With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z “Indecent” makes deft use of projections to indicate whether the language being spoken is English or German or Yiddish, or when a “blink in time” occurs, and the action fast-forwards. Review: ‘Indecent’ Revisits a Play Colliding With Broadway Mores and More 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Portnoy’s subjects are those he calls the “unsung heroes of the Jewish underclass,” but the secret stars in “Bad Rabbi” are the largely anonymous Yiddish journalists who chronicled their foibles. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z You arrived the year the Fillmore East opened in another former Yiddish theater, the Commodore, on Second Avenue. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “He was always funny,” Steinberg said, recalling an ancient joke about a parrot that Mr. Brezner told in a thick Yiddish accent at a surprise party last spring. Larry Brezner, manager who helped shape the careers of Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, dies at 73 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z A battered sign in Yiddish hangs near portraits of rabbis on a gleaming white-tile wall. The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak It brings me closer to my roots in Spanish, Russian, Polish and Yiddish culture. Tango: Argentina's gift to the world 2010-10-05T12:59:00Z When am I ever going to study Yiddish and read lots of Yiddish literature if I don’t give myself this pretext? Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z Britain and then America and the U.S.S.R. set the terms, and they looked askance at the Yiddish idea of “peoples” for philosophical reasons as well as practical ones. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The celebration will also include family museum tours and a performance by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s Youth Academy Ensemble. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The report doesn’t go into any detail we’d much care about except the epithet thrown: “shiksa,” a word of Yiddish origin, commonly defined as a female gentile, with some undefined measure of pejorative connotation. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Abrams was a scholar of Romantic poetry who grew up speaking Yiddish in New Jersey. 102-year-old literary scholar, Pynchon's prof, honored at White House 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In a production at the Ellen Stewart Theater — the site of a former Yiddish theater — the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater has revived its adaptation of this story, which it first staged in 1997. | 'Golem': ?Golem? at La MaMa E.T.C. - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:49Z Finkel's career started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway and "Boston Public" on TV. Fyvush Finkel, plastic-faced character actor, dead at 93 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Aleichem foresaw the demise of his culture, and its vibrant Yiddish language. 'Sholem Aleichem' documents 'the Jewish Mark Twain' 2011-09-29T20:01:06Z Bittersweet Tales, Told in a Yiddish Accent Yiddishkeit, we learn in “A Letter to Harvey Milk,” part of the New York Musical Theater Festival, is both a slap and a kiss. Theater Review: ‘A Letter to Harvey Milk’ at Pershing Square Signature Center 2012-07-27T21:36:40Z He hears Yiddish in the structure of Mr. Miller’s dialogue, as when Willy’s girlfriend asks when he’ll be back in town and he says, “Oh, two weeks about.” Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z When he was tested, he often voiced his thoughts in Yiddish, which removed any sting. Gil Cates led with wit, charm and confidence 2011-11-02T18:26:12Z The story effectively ended there until a few years ago, when a series of conversations and personal connections put him in touch with National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene’s artistic director. A Yiddish Operetta, Once Lost, Will Receive Its Full First Staging in 70 Years 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He was, however, a maven of Yiddish literature, considered moving to Palestine at one point and studied Hebrew. A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z "Is that an Indian saying? Sounds Yiddish. You're saying Winters is just human?" The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Already fluent in German, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic and Yiddish, he learned English by listening to Hollywood stars. Zev Buffman, Prolific Theatrical Producer, Is Dead at 89 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z A Yiddish speaker might wonder if someone had gotten farblondjet — goofed or become lost and confused. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Will pop fans care that the author of "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" made up many of the lyrics? Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Special' polished to a collaborative gleam 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z A Yiddish production of “Soul Doctor” is running through June 29 at the Segal Centre in Montreal. 'Soul Doctor' Will Return, Off Broadway 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I had the good fortune to see it at New York City’s Village East cinema, a converted 1920s Yiddish theater in lower Manhattan. Why has Tarantino turned The Hateful Eight into a Netflix miniseries? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Most notably, in one performance he used a common Yiddish slur — the rough equivalent of the N-word — to refer to Barack Obama. Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z There was, for example, the one about the Yiddish actor who asks a woman to wake up her husband, who is snoring in the theater’s front row. Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland — her father was a fruit peddler — and as a girl she spoke Yiddish at home. Sally Gross, Choreographer of Minimalist Dances, Dies at 81 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z That forced them to spend several weeks before and during rehearsals getting all aboard to pronounce the Yiddish words correctly, with intonations that capture that lost world’s context and flavor. How Do You Say ‘Tradition’ in Yiddish? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “Isaac Singer is a Yiddish writer. Amos Oz is an Israeli writer. A writer is defined by his language.” Philip Roth Is Good for the Jews 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Most natural, perhaps, is the way in which Kosky’s take on the musical — unaltered, but for welcome Yiddish additions — unfolds as an act of memory, at once melancholy and warm. America’s Most Interesting Opera Destination? The Midwest 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z So Ms. Wolfe inventively juxtaposes a plaintive Yiddish folk song with a lively Italian tarantella-like piece. Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The modern era of the shiksa begins only towards the end of the 19th century, with the advent of a secular Yiddish literature. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z Many of the book’s characters are actors — divinely hammy ones, if that may be said about the Yiddish theater — who quote from “Kinig Lir,” the Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z According to the Yiddish newspaper the Forward, Mrs. Grade told almost no one about his death and his graveside funeral was attended by just her and a friend. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z I’m not Jewish; I come from a long line of Boston Irish Catholics, and I don’t know a word of Yiddish. Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The clarinetist Greg Wall and his band, Klezmerfest!, will engage their young audience in singing, dancing and learning a little Yiddish. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In case you’re wondering, machatonim is a Yiddish word that describes a relationship for which there is no equivalent word in English: the parents of your child’s spouse. Meet the Clinton Baby's Other Grandparents 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The energy shifted partly to the Catskills, where entertainers spritzed Yiddish vernacular into their English-language routines for vacationers who wanted a side of nostalgia with their stuffed cabbage. ‘New York’s Yiddish Theater’ Explores a Fractious Heritage of Melodrama and Musicals 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z His parents ran a Yiddish school and theater, and as a youngster he helped create the sets and perform in small roles. Arthur Hiller, Oscar-nominated ‘Love Story’ director, dies at 92 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The archive also contains a manuscript of an unpublished novel Mrs. Grade wrote, whose main characters are David Carency, a writer; his wife Ginna; and Samuel Usher, the publisher of a Yiddish newspaper. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “If we’re talking about rounding up the lions of the Yiddish language, then I’d be first on the list,” he absurdly insists. Theater Review: ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’ at the Public Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z The actors speak and sing in Yiddish, with English and Russian supertitles. Review: ‘The Sorceress’ Casts a Charming Spell in Yiddish 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z I envied friends who grew up with the undiluted version, who could lapse into Yiddish without a pause, who didn’t have to double-check whether you go to synagogue on the Friday or Saturday or both. I am as devoted to Christmas as I am to Hanukah. No wonder my boys are confused | Hadley Freeman 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z I thought about my curly dark hair and Jewish nose and envisioned the entire Disney company, including CEO Bob Iger, ushering me out the door with a broom while singing Yiddish folk songs. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Hoffman said that interest in Yiddish was rising, particularly among young people unburdened by the heavy stigmas their forebears endured. Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren on ‘Death of a Salesman’ and Yiddish 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He speaks German precisely if at times a bit haltingly and peppers his English with Yiddish words. 2010-01-08T03:32:00Z B & H survives as a relic of the old Jewish Rialto, the Yiddish Theatre District, the world that was Second Avenue, generations before I arrived. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Jochnowitz offered a theory on why mamaliga didn't last in Jewish restaurants: "Some Yiddish foods totally cross over, and some don't," she said over the phone. Why this classic Romanian-Jewish dish is nearly impossible to find 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z While "tzimmes" translates from Yiddish as "a big fuss," the dish is pretty simple: carrots and sweet potatoes stewed with dried fruit and warming spices. Vegans rejoice! We have 18 Passover recipes for you 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z But there’s French club and Latin club; why not Yiddish? Surviving 8th grade: How a shy Irish Catholic girl found refuge in Yiddish Club 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z And yet the closer I was getting, both geographically and psychologically, to the once-great Yiddish European civilization of my forebears, the more I began to experience the dull horror of its annihilation. From Poland to Lithuania: A Writer’s Search for Her Jewish Past 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s yielded best sellers like Robert Harris’s “Fatherland” and literary gems like Michael Chabon’s “Yiddish Policemen’s Union.” Books of The Times: With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z He liked to fress – a wonderful Yiddish term. Dan Aykroyd: ‘Squirrels? They taste better than rattlesnake’ 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z I shared Winters latest message with Vatsal at our next session, confessing how I'd been so enraged at Dr. Winters' continual lies that I'd even put a Yiddish curse on him. The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z In her new solo show, inspired by Patrick Stewart’s “Christmas Carol,” Ms. Hoffman meets the ghosts of Hanukkah Past, Present and Future, and gets a visit from the beloved Yiddish comedic actress Molly Picon. ?A Christmas Carol? and Other Holiday Shows, in Many Permutations 2011-12-08T22:06:39Z The ambitions of “Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish” outstrip its execution, which is clumsy and sometimes amateurish. | 'Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish': Love Speaks in Every Language 2011-07-08T02:42:00Z Instead of revealing anything about the men who shot him, the witness lets loose a string of Yiddish profanity that one of Van Alden's cohorts helpfully translates. "Boardwalk Empire": Everyone is currency 2010-10-04T06:01:00Z And I hadn’t planned on seeing this, the version in actual Yiddish, either when it became a surprise hit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, nor when it moved uptown to Stage 42. A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As a result, if you’re familiar with “Fiddler” already, you will probably understand a lot of this version even without knowing Yiddish. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Adam B. Shapiro, who was in the cast of the company’s hit Yiddish version of “Fiddler on the Roof,” is the M.C. Theater to Stream: Holiday Specials Edition 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Email becomes email, though spelled in the Hebrew script that Yiddish adopted when it arose among Ashkenazic Jews in German-speaking lands during the 10th century. How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Season Finale Concert: Music of joy and praise through classical, jazz, folk and pop songs, performed in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino. Sounds of spring will include Bach, Debussy and Ravel this year 2010-06-10T20:54:00Z Many of the horrors in "Son of Saul" -- whose dialogue slides quickly between Hungarian, German and Yiddish -- happen on the edges of the frame or in the out-of-focus background. Cannes 2015: 'Son of Saul' turns a festival upside down 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z To end the evening, he recited another Yiddish poem, one of his own, he told the audience. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s worth little but referred to throughout his life by his mother as his yerushe, Yiddish for inheritance. The last will and testament of a millennial 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z There are jokes in Latin and Yiddish, and visual puns involving the local Spanish architecture. What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The dialogue hopscotches among Yiddish, English and German; the scenes among the Hasidim are essentially period pieces, meticulously designed and costumed. Review: ‘Unorthodox,’ a Stunning Escape From Brooklyn 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z In Yiddish Author’s Papers, Potential Gold Chaim Grade was the other great postwar Yiddish writer, the one few people outside of scholarly circles has ever heard of. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z As a child he was taught at home, in Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian, by private tutors, and he secretly cultivated what was to become a lifelong interest in Karl Marx. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z Adapted by the Jewish communities in Italy, it traveled to Germany and then to Eastern Europe, taking on its Yiddish name, which means almond bread. 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