Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siberia, Yiddish signs, schoolbooks and newspapers are no longer to be seen. Anything but reassuring, Khrushchev's reply raised a fresh outcry from Jewish leaders in Paris, New York, Tel Aviv. The Soviet boss baldly labeled Birobidzhan a "failure" and in laying the blame on Jewish "individualism" and "intellectualism" seemed to single out the Jews as an element unfitted for Soviet collectivism...
...cosmopolitan cant of chess players, it is legend that masters of the game are all meshuga-Yiddish for a little batty. But when they talk of Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the newly crowned...
Shikker Iz a Goy. The Yale researchers found many a Jew who stoutly denied having been brought up to believe that Jews are more temperate than Gentiles. Yet many could be prompted into remembering the old Yiddish song, Shikker Iz a Goy (Drunken Is a Gentile). Translation...
...called Hodge and he fed it oysters) or as mad as Edward Lear (who had a cat called Foss which resembled an owl) should be permitted to write about cats. A cartoonist like the late great Herriman, whose Krazy Kat spoke a wild, weird kind of New York Yiddish in Coconino County, Ariz., also belongs in this noble company. Not so Thomasina. Cats may be useful animals to have around any house, but not around a publishing house. Doubleday & Co. should have reminded Author Gallico that...
...marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions, he-and the play-are at their best. When he gets down to words, matters are less exhilarating. Using foreign words -jabbering in French, German, Russian, Yiddish, gibberish-he is fun the first five or six times. But using English words-though there are happy Coward glints and phrasings and intonations-he seems to be neither the hilarious mot juste expert nor the acid-throwing enfant terrible. There are false-tooth marks at best...