Word: yiddishe
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When he's not directing, Spielberg spends a lot of time pursuing charitable projects--he recently helped start a digital library to preserve Yiddish books--and running DreamWorks, the studio he co-founded in 1994. He has already wrapped his next picture, Catch Me If You Can, an adventure based on the true story of a 1960s counterfeiter, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. He is also planning a fourth Indiana Jones movie for 2005. "I met my wife on the second one," says Spielberg, "so the happiest memory of my entire life came from that film. That...
...EUROPE Faeroese (50,000 speakers) doesn't get protected by the European Union minority-language bureau: the Faeroe Islands don't belong. Others at risk are Sardinian, from the Italian island of Sardinia, and Yiddish, on the wane since World...
...hope that President Summers will not yield to his critics, because if he does they will only multiply,” said Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse...
...point, Franken took Yiddish while at Harvard just so he could tell jokes on a comedy route through resorts in the Catskills...
...Everything Is Illuminated is written as a duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...