Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty should deal only with New York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that the stay-at-home Irish-unlike their New York brothers who are constantly obliged to make themselves heard in the surrounding din-talk softly to each other...
...three songs after intermission were sung straightfaced, and at a level of artistry matched by very few folk-singers. His Go Down Moses, which he mingles with a rehashed Yiddish song, is powerful music by any standard...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...
...Warsaw Yiddish-language newspaper Folks-Sztyme made no such equivocations in publishing a long list of Polish Jews, prominent in cultural and political fields, who were liquidated by Stalin...
...crowded into the office, the Worker's reporters batted out copy for the 6 p.m. deadline. But an hour before deadline the T-men shooed everybody out and padlocked the Worker's offices. Staffers walked two stories downstairs to the offices of Morning Freiheit (the Communists' Yiddish-language daily) and went back to writing. By 5:30 p.m. all the Worker's copy was closed and sent to the composing room of F & D Printing Co., the separate corporation in the same building that prints the Worker. Crowed the Worker's banner headline next morning...