Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prepared for just such an opening, the Rothschilds had created a communications system of fast coaches and a Yiddish-German cipher to link the family diaspora. Meyer sent Prince William's Hessian thalers to London, where Son Nathan's speculations multiplied them and won the family a small fortune and big reputation. When the British asked Nathan to smuggle gold to Wellington's troops trapped in Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, he shipped the gold straight to France, where Brother Jakob slipped it through the Pyrenees. Nathan found out about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo before...
Pride & Principle. For the Rothschilds, who still retained some of their Yiddish accents and ghetto ways, money also bought culture, fame and a degree of acceptance. They were celebrated in the writings of Byron and Thackeray; artists such as Ingres painted their women; Balzac and Browning sought out their sumptuous but always kosher tables; Rossini composed music for their parties; Bismarck and British royalty attended them. From Buckinghamshire to Bohemia, the Rothschilds put up marble palaces, acquired vineyards and stables. Breathed Lady Eastlake: "The Medicis were never lodged so in the height of their glory...
...Choice. The Puerto Ricans' problem is that their island is so close. They move back and forth between it and the mainland and thus keep their language, which in turn insures that they remain isolated (Spanish is more solidly established in New York City schools than Italian or Yiddish ever was). Migration is tough on Puerto Rican families. Mothers who had plenty of relatives to help with the children in Puerto Rico become hard pressed in New York. But Puerto Ricans have established 4,000 businesses in the city-more than the Negroes have-and they have formed...
...soiled-so often that a Mirror rule, which limited him to only one byline a day, has forced him to appear under such pseudonyms as Amos Coggins, Gabriel Prevor, Reg Ovington, Jaime Montdor (Spanish-French for Hymie Goldberg), Robert Benevy and Veigh S. Meer-a phonetic rendition of the Yiddish for "Woe is me." Goldberg rarely has trouble cornering subjects. "When they see me come, all fear vanishes," says he. "There is first my distinguished white hair. Then my baby-blue eyes. Also, most of them are bigger than I am." This disparity in size did not dispel the suspicions...
...British camp on the Isle of Man. She had an international repertoire of folk songs by the time she left England, but when she came to the U.S. in 1948, she rarely escaped the Borsch Belt and Hadassah-club audiences that wanted a strictly Kosher diet of Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Since then, she has made four albums of international folk songs, but record stores are still likely to keep her in the Jewish bin; when she packed Town Hall for her first New York concert, a friend who had followed her Catskill career asked, "What did you do-give...