Word: yiddishe
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...three songs after intermission were sung straightfaced, and at a level of artistry matched by very few folk-singers. His Go Down Moses, which he mingles with a rehashed Yiddish song, is powerful music by any standard...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...
...Warsaw Yiddish-language newspaper Folks-Sztyme made no such equivocations in publishing a long list of Polish Jews, prominent in cultural and political fields, who were liquidated by Stalin...
...crowded into the office, the Worker's reporters batted out copy for the 6 p.m. deadline. But an hour before deadline the T-men shooed everybody out and padlocked the Worker's offices. Staffers walked two stories downstairs to the offices of Morning Freiheit (the Communists' Yiddish-language daily) and went back to writing. By 5:30 p.m. all the Worker's copy was closed and sent to the composing room of F & D Printing Co., the separate corporation in the same building that prints the Worker. Crowed the Worker's banner headline next morning...
...geographical judgment not to be confused with an observation by one of Sherman's fellow officers. Said General Phil Sheridan: "If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." - From the Yiddish noshyn, to eat a little (especially sweets) between meals...