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• Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (DVD)

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 145
  Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (DVD)…
  3 days ago

• Book: Yiddish Given Names

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 434
  Rella Israly Cohns "Yiddish Given Names" (Scarecrow Press, 2008) is a new one for Tracing the Tribe. The work, based on the authors dissertation, was mentioned recently on the Jewish librarians discussion list. It offers 256 given names used in the modern period (since 1750). Patrick J. Stevens, selector for Jewish ...
  3 days ago

• Lot’s of Fun with Yiddish Words

  
  Web Design TB — Authority: 158
  Ashkenazi Jews from Europe often speak the Yiddish language, whereas Sephardic Jews speak Ladino. Yiddish seems to be a cross of Hebrew, Russian, German, and Polish and is written with the Hebrew alphabet. The language developed in the 10th and 11th centuries in the Rhineland and then spread other parts of Europe and ...
  6 days ago

• Yiddish: Got a summer or a year?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 434
  Our family lost Yiddish and Russian back in 1905 when great-grandma told her kids, upon arrival in Newark NJ, that they were Americans and must only speak English from then on. Of course, she herself never did! Yiddish - the Russian disappeared almost immediately - lasted for another complete generation of fluent ...
  6 days ago

• The Jews Are a Race, Not a Religion

  
  INCOG MAN: Sick of all the BS... — Authority: 125
  What Whites need to understand.
  6 days ago

• Fencing Tournament

  
  Kansas City with the Russian Accent — Authority: 122
  Couple of weeks ago unbeknown to you the Russian population of this Metro Area has doubled for a few days. A surprising number of Russian-speaking coaches, parents and participants arrived to Kansas City for the U.S. Fencing North American Cup Tournament. There were of course many others (some of them even Americans ...
  1 week ago

• Theater Review | Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears: Extending the Reach of a Great Yiddish Writer, Unto the Next Generation

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Theodore Bikel performing “Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears.”
  1 week ago

• So, How Did You Spend YOUR Weekend?

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 130
  I hope you found a better way to use your time than this: “Sabbath” Protest Targets Intel (The BBC; Nov 14) Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem have protested outside the offices of the US firm, Intel, against the plant operating on the Jewish day of rest. The demonstrators chanted “Shabbes! ...
  1 week ago

• Break a Leg! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 118
  Posted by Bruce MillerHappy Friday the 13th! What better time to begin a series on superstitions in the theatre?There seem to be 10 to 20 irrational but nonetheless traditional beliefs that have bounced around from time to time and stage to stage. There are certainly three that are observed with regularity right here ...
  2 weeks ago

• Contemporary Klezmer - A Solo Clarinet

  
  A Diary Left Open — Authority: 128
  I now have a "series" of cool contemporary Klezmer pieces, so this is the second one that I wanted to share with you. Klezmer seems perfect to enjoy during the onset of the holiday season. I also found some funny little archival clips that seemed to work well in three of the pieces because Klezmer celebrates laughter. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is this survey OK by you?

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 747
  The Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity reports on the results of an online survey of 25,179 American Jews and 4,874 American Gentiles. Non-Jews say "klutz" but not "schmutz." The more Orthodox you are, the more likely you are to say "Good Shabbos" instead of "Shabbat Shalom." And so much more youll ...
  2 weeks ago

• Keeping Away From the Schvartzes

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 547
  By Shais "MaNishtana" Rison Hey kids!  Gather around now, were gonna talk about the "s-word"! Yay! Yay! Yknow, "schvartze." Or "schwartze." Or "schvatza." Or "nigg--." Whoop! I meant "shwartzer." Theres a quiz on Facebook-the "Jewish Vocabulary Quiz"-which includes this wholesome gem of a question: "Your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dispute Over Messiah Goes to Court

  
  The Brooklyn Ink — Authority: 505
  Six members of the Orthodox Jewish patrol Shomrim were back in the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, on trial for allegedly attacking yeshiva students in Crown Heights two years ago.
  3 weeks ago

• New research on Jews (and non-Jews) language use

  
  ignoblus, for the moment — Authority: 411
  I just got email regarding a linguistic study on Jewish language use. Results are here . Many of the implications are fascinating. Language is a major site of contention with different Jewish cultures. Jewish culture is sometimes called Yiddishkeit, for example, though Yiddishkeit is only one kind of Jewish culture. ...
  3 weeks ago

• לאכן מיט יאשטשערקעס

  
  Letters of Thought — Authority: 411
  והנה ה׳ ניצב עליו, ומלא כל הארץ כבודו, ומביט עליו א סצענע פון לעבען א געדיכט פון עומק הלב אן א גראם און אן א טעם מוויל נאר די אמת טאן איך וויל און דו ווילסט נאר ווער ...
  4 weeks ago

• McKinney Dances About Heritage

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 140
  By Rebecca Shaw Imagine growing up identifying with not only one or two cultures, but several vastly different cultures, and being passionate about all of them. Adam McKinney, who descends from African-Americans, Native Americans and Ashkenazi Jews, commemorates his multiple heritages through a program entitled DNA ...
  4 weeks ago

• Oy vey, I have shpilkes

  
  Running for My Life: Fighting cancer one step at a time — Authority: 112
  In light of my financial problems, the words that I heard coming up from my cellar yesterday were especially scary. Having finally broken down and turned the heat on a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted heat on Tuesday, a damp, rainy day. I felt especially tired and was not happy to realize the heat on one side ...
  4 weeks ago

• My latest Yiddish translation: A preamble by Mendele the Book Peddler

  
  Pratie Place — Authority: 124
  This is an excerpt from the introduction to Mendel Moykher Sforims first book; we read it in Paris this summer at the Medem Bibliotheque and it was my favorite piece by far. I finally had the time to translate it for my own pleasure and, I hope, for yours. A preamble by Mendele the Book Peddler On the occasion of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Swine Flu Protection in Yiddish

  
  Shearim — Authority: 143
  B"H I havent noticed them in Jerusalem but they are obvious in Tel Aviv: Posters with advise how to prevent the swine flu are almost everywhere. Even as a commercial in the cinema. Here is a New York advertisement against the swine flu in Yiddish:   Stolen from  Muqata  Titel: ...
  4 weeks ago

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