Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fred Gardner's story "Admiration" talks about the seamy side of garment worker society in the Depression. Gardner's hero is a Jewish gangster, with a heart, naturally. "Admiration" is not a world-shaking story, but Gardner writes Yiddish dialogue with accuracy and verve...
...Benny Profane, a schlemiel (the Yiddish word for chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero. Shouts of triumph or yelps of protest are not for schlemiels; Benny's conversation is limited to "What?" and "Wha." The alligators come into it when he arrives in New York after a Navy hitch-the liberty scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole...
This issue of Mosaic includes no undergraduate fiction or poetry, but does contain an essay, "The Relevance of Jane Austen: Remarks on Jewish Writing in America," by Lewis Kampf, and a memoir by the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer...
...children of Forward readers do not read the paper, because they cannot. As the second-generation sons and daughters of Jewish immigrants, they have forgotten the mother tongue, that backward-running curious cross of Hebrew and medieval German. Like Yiddish itself, the Forward is an anachronism, born in a departed past to meet a need that no longer exists...
Today, Forward circulation is down to 56,126 daily and 59,636 Sunday, and still dwindling. The paper has tried to meet its problems by emphasizing its role as a comprehensive general newspaper that just happens to print in Yiddish. It has fulltime correspondents in London, Paris and Israel, subscribes to both the A.P. and U.P.I, as well as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Among its 40 contributing editors and writers-most of whom speak Hebrew. Yiddish and English-are men who write in such specialized fields as theater, labor, TV and society. Socialism has softened into liberalism. The Forward looks...