Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FATHER'S COURT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boyhood years in a Polish rabbi's household are evoked in energetic and engaging detail by Yiddish Writer Singer, now recognized as one of the great contemporary novelists...
...inkwell of wonders, he has drawn out, in his demonic, forceful fiction (The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote in Yiddish for New York's Jewish Daily Forward. In translation they are brisk, bright and engagingly exotic. Even...
...actors who are always in control are Kaplan and Miss Archer. Kaplan's Wong has a strongly Yiddish flavor, much like Sholom Alcichem's dairyman Tevye before Broadway got to him. But the resemblance--the good humor in despair, the pleading with the marvelously impotent gods, the befuddled good intentions--is in Brecht's script as well as Kaplan's portrayal. Miss Archer has warmth, a versatile vocal range, the ability to switch swiftly between the two parts she must play, and good legs...
Dubinsky used the strike sparingly, and under him the I.L.G.W.U. amassed a knippe-Yiddish for nest egg-worth $571 million, invested in everything from union buildings to a 1,000-acre vacation resort for members in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains; the I.L.G.W.U. has even lent the Rockefellers funds for a housing project in Puerto Rico. Dubinsky's hand-picked successor is the union's secretary-treasurer: quietly efficient Louis Stulberg, 64, a Polish-born ex-cutter, whose main job has been overseeing the union's business empire...
...ignored them or persecuted them with murderous pogroms. Still, a year without a pogrom was considered a good one, and the good years were poetically simple and sweet. Chapter shows a cheder, a Hebrew school full of students so serious that they are almost comic, a scene from a Yiddish play, a 1912 home movie of an Orthodox wedding looking for all the world like a series of moving Chagall lithographs of children, bride, groom and wedding guests...