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Yiddish Glossary for Goyim: The Power Shmoozer’s Guide to Hollywood

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January 30, 2019

In the era of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, movie moguls tended to spice their jargon with expressions from the colorful vernacular of their pushcart-peddling forebears. The euphony of…

Verter fun der Vokh: װאַלן – Elections

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January 9, 2019

ניצט אויס אײַ֜ער שטי֜מרעכט! Exercise your right to vote! absentee ballot: דער פֿאַרפֿע֜לער־צעטל, ־ען [DER FARFÉLER-TSETL, -EN] ballot: דער שטי֜מצעטל, ־ען; די שטים, ־ען [DER ShTÍMTSETL, -EN; DI ShTIM, -EN]…

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

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January 8, 2019

Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse,…

װאָס אונדזערע גדוֹלים האָבן פֿאַרזען

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January 6, 2019

פֿ ו ן העט װען עקבערט מײַן מוֹח אַזאַ פֿראַגע: צי זײַנען בײַ ייִדן געװען װעלכע עס איז מעגלעכ־ קייטן פֿאַר אייגענע, תּכליתדיקע איניציאַטיװן אין דעם דראַמאַטיש־גוֹרלדיקן פּעריאָד פֿון 1880…

Save The Music Presents: New Year’s Song in Yiddish

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January 2, 2019

“Di tsaytn fun a mol” (original: “Auld Lang Syne”) Scottish folk song; original lyric transcription: Robert Burns (1788) Yiddish lyrics and choral arrangement: Binyumen Schaechter (Sept.-Oct. 2017) Jewish People’s Philharmonic…

Happy 2019!

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December 28, 2018

Jewish Christmas Songs in Yiddish and English

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December 24, 2018

“White Christmas”, written by Irvibg Berlin (Yisroel-Yisidor Beilin) sung by Danny Kaye. “Winter Wonderland”, written by Felix Bernard “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer”, by KuglPlex Klezmer in Yiddish “Loz Ez…

אַ פּאָליציי מיט רבּנישער סמיכות

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December 13, 2018

װי באַװוּסט, האָט די באַרימטע ק”ק כעלעם, אַזוי װי אַנדערע ייִדישע שטעט, אויך פֿאַרמאָגט ייִדישע גנבֿים, שװינדלערס און כלערליי בעלי עבירהניקעס. זײ אַלע האָבן זיך פֿאַרדינט מען זאָל זײ אַרײַנזעצן…

Verter fun der Vokh: ביר – Beer

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December 5, 2018

BEER ביר ale: דאָס ע֜נגלישע ביר [DOS ÉNGLIShE BIR] barley: (גערשטן (ל״ר [GERShTN] beer: דאָס ביר, ־ן [DOS BIR, -N] For the complete list, click here to go to the…

Do Not Remove a Fly From Your Friend’s Forehead With an Ax…” and Other Yiddish Proverbs

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November 23, 2018

this week’s proverbs פאַרטרײַבּ נישט די פליג פון דײַן פרײַנדס שטערן מיט אַ האַק transliterated fartrayb nit di flig fun dayn fraynd’s shtern mit a hak in English do not…