Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him in the great tradition of Yiddish writing, Kenneth Rexroth has called him "certainly one of the most remarkable American authors who has ever lived...
...stories are almost always set in the shtetlech, the self-contained little communities in which most Eastern European Jews lived until the Second World War. They draw deeply from Hasidic and cabalistic lore and they are full of remnants of the folk tales which are the primary sources of Yiddish literature. Yet, Singer's conviction that the demons he writes about are real is balanced in his fiction by a wholly modern psychological skepticism. He has been condemned by many Yiddish critics for the same qualities that critics like Rexroth, Alfred Kazin, and Irving Howe find praiseworthy--a lack...
Died. Alexander Kahn, 80, Russian-born general manager of New York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...army, and many Russian space scientists are Jews. In recent years Khrushchev's regime has permitted limited publication of works by famed Jewish Writer Sholom Aleichem, allowed Jewish theatrical and variety troupes to be formed. Three months ago, the Kremlin for the first time in years authorized a Yiddish-language magazine (carefully controlled, of course...
...stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime evening time is given over to what the radio trade calls the schlockm'misier (from schlock, a Yiddish word for junk...