Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loose confederation of some 1,000 Catskill Mountain resorts, so named in honor of the East European Jewish clientele who filled the rooms, wandered the greenery, searched for mates, did a locust number on the four Lucullan meals a day (including a midnight snack) and cheered the tummlers, a Yiddish word for exuberant entertainers. The performers themselves were a nation of immigrants: David Daniel Kaminski, Aaron Chwatt, Jacob Pincus Perelmuth, Morris Miller, Eugene Klass, Joseph Levitch, Milton Berlinger, Joseph Gottlieb. All are better known under their noms de borscht: Danny Kaye, Red Buttons, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Gene Barry, Jerry...
...homogenizing effect of their four years in Cambridge. That process begins early in a student's Harvard career. The suggested summer reading for incoming freshman is the Education of Henry Adams, a bible of New England culture written by the same man who complained of immigrants snarling a weird yiddish. (I like to think it was my ancestors who annoyed this 19th century man's sensibilities.) At the 350th anniversary celebration, Charles, Prince of Wales will speak at one of the main convocations, the one dedicated to celebrating Harvard's Anglo-Saxon roots...
Perhaps my father's words of advice to me before I left for college seem to be the best solution to the dilemma Harvard presents. "You'll do well," he said, "If you dress British but always think Yiddish...
...deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...
...celebration took a musical form on Saturday night, when a Sephardic concert kicked off the week's calender of events. On Sunday night, Israeli folk singer Chava Alberstein entertained a nearly-filled Sanders Theater audience, singing Hebrew and Yiddish melodies in a benefit for Soviet Jewry...