Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like all of Allen's best work, Zelig is, finally, a comedy of manners-public manners in this case, not private ones as in Annie Hall or Manhattan. In Yiddish it means blessed, and Zelig is, surely, in the midst of a typical American summer at the movies when almost everything is a loud assault on the senses, a benison. It is both a welcome wooing of sensibility and intellect and a film that will be recalled long after Labor Day has come and gone. -By Richard Schickel
...German and in English, thus providing employment for 186 German-speaking teachers. In 1917 San Francisco taught German in eight primary schools, Italian in six, French in four and Spanish in two. Yet when most cities consented to teach immigrant children in their native Chinese or Polish or Yiddish or Gujarati, the clearly stated goal was to transform the students as quickly as possible into speakers of English and full participants in society...
...quick survey: Out of 10 books picked randomly in the Portuguese History and Literature section of the stacks, only two had been checked out in the last decade. In the Yiddish Literature section only one. In Italian History and Literature (1800-1899) two, in Oriental Literatures two, in Bibliography--History of Libraries two And in the Mid East Section. I had to go through 27 books before brooks before finding one that had ever been checked...
...someone tried to start a Yiddish journal in Moscow" and was refused permission, Chomsky added, "people would be screaming their heads...
...entered the University of Melbourne. Pisar discovered that he had tuberculosis. Ironically, this and another remnant of his war years catalyzed his metamorphosis and shifted the direction of his future life: "During the war and after I had acquired my languages trying to survive--English. German, Russian, French, Yiddish and a few other languages Immobilized and put on my back. I began to read and systematically swallowed literature after literature. "Then I recovered, and by then of course. I had become a very thoughtful...