Word: yiddishe
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...pulled in the same direction" says the Yiddish proverb, "the whole world would topple over." Nowhere is that folk wisdom more apparent than on the acreage of Israel or in the first work of nonfiction by Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow. Late in 1975, when the author was a youthful 60 and the country was a ravaged 27, Bellow visited the Holy Land-his first trip since...
...Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow's phrase, "a sharpie circa 1905 in Russia." In 1924 the family settled on Division Street in Chicago; Bellow thus grew up speaking English, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Twice-removed from the land of his parents-and a Jew in the predominantly Protestant Midwest -Bellow had good reason to wonder where in the world he belonged...
Elementary Yiddish...
...Yiddish Poetry and Prose...
...people who know Yiddish and want to keep in touch with it. We will read from the works of Sholem Aleichem, Bergelson, Bailik, Der Nister, Grade, Hofstein, Kulback, Leivick, Manager, Main Leib, and Peretz...