Word: yiddishe
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...particular, Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature and comparative literature, is said to be opposed to having a Holocaust chair at all, instead favoring a more general scholar of Jewish history with an interest in the Holocaust...
...That Jakob survives at all is a miracle. After days of hiding, he is finally driven by hunger to risk his fate by approaching a stranger. "I screamed into the silence the only phrase I knew in more than one language, I screamed it in Polish and German and Yiddish, thumping my fists on my own chest: dirty Jew, dirty Jew, dirty...
DIED. LEO ROSTEN, 88, author best known for his works celebrating Jewish culture; in New York City. His definitive reference work, The Joys of Yiddish, published in 1968, introduced readers to colorful and now common terms like schlemiel, schmaltz and chutzpah. A native of Poland, Rosten seasoned his scholarship with humor, which he called "one of the requirements for sanity...
...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...
...panelists, a group of Jewish intellectuals and journalists, included Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature and of comparative literature at Harvard; Sholom Avineri, professor of political science at Hebrew University; Daniel Pipes, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic...