Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a rich Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...
...yellow journalism, and the comics calmed down. There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore's saloon...
...FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a rich Warsaw family from pre-World War I days until 1939, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language...
Isaac Singer, who was born in Poland and now lives in New York, has been comfortably labeled the greatest living master of Yiddish prose-a judgment that is a kind of dismissal. But The Family Moskat, unavailable for many years and now reissued, makes clear his right to stand among the important contemporary novelists of any creed or any language...
...guidance counselor records students' negative motivations; the nurse, their positive Wassermanns. But the faculty's interest is , more clerical than clinical, and even dropouts are a problem more of tabulation than of salvation. After 15 years of teaching in schools like Coolidge, Bel Kaufman, a granddaughter of Yiddish Author Sholom Aleichem, in 1962 published a satirical anthology (From a Teacher's Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length. But her characters-including the inevitable Fat Girl and the Fatuous Principal-are also mostly paperwork. A well...