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...finif (Yiddish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...mayvin (Yiddish clothing-store cant)-a know-it-all customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Died. Maurice Schwartz, 69, founder, director and leading actor of New York's Yiddish Art Theater, which from 1919 to 1950 produced about 150 plays-from Shakespeare to Sholom Aleichem-and such alumni as Paul Muni and Stella Adler; of a heart attack; in Petah Tikva, Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Died. Jennie Goldstein, 64, actress in the Yiddish theater for 57 years (Slaves of Luxury, Should a Mother Tell?), revered by her fans as the "Ethel Barrymore of Second Avenue"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 22, 1960 | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian and Yiddish, bursts out explosively at Tammany men with chalk-stripe suits and Shinola in their hair. He has the look of a man who likes fire trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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