Word: yiddishe
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...phrases she's picked up at Harvard: I've learned some Yiddish from my roommates. It's actually pretty similar to [how we talk at] home. Interview: Elisabeth Mayer Photo: Haibin...
...phrase equivalent to "jungle fever" exists to describe Jewish feelings about intermarriage. There are plenty of Yiddish words that refer a bit wryly to so-called "gentiles", but there is no such thing as "shtetl fever". (The shtetl is the Jewish, Eastern European "hood...
...some courses, such as Yiddish A, "ElementaryYiddish," the problem is not over-enrollment, butdistribution...
...teacher received all kinds of assurancesthat our textbook would be in," said James B.Loeffler '96, a student in the class. ButCollege Yiddish has yet to make anappearance in Cambridge. In the interim, studentsare making do with Xeroxed copies as they wait forthe textbook...
...Professor of Yiddish Literature and ofComparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse remainedskeptical, saying that last week's handshake doesnot guarantee peace in the region...