Word: yiddishe
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...slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer for a film trade paper. He soon switched to hawking talent, managing comics like Slappy White and Stanley Myron Handelman...
SIMON No, let me ask you one. Why do you speak with Yiddish locutions? My audience isn't exclusively Jewish. Neither are my characters. Not any more, any way. Matter of fact, I still recall a black man pointing to a figure in my first play, Come Blow Your Horn, and insisting, "That's my father...
...author, who began collecting Yiddish aphorisms in his childhood and continued throughout a distinguished academic career, provides a fine sketch of Jewish social character in the introduction. He is nothing if not thorough...
HILLEL suggest two ways of celebrating Chanukah this week, Dec. 1. PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE. Laurence Senlick reads Sholom Aleichem at a Sabbath Table Talk at 8:45 p.m. Dec. 3, SANDERS THEATRE. Nehama Lilschitz Yiddish. Hebrew and Russian Folksongs, 5 p.m. followed by a Chanukah supper in MEMORIAL HALL Concert, students 92, non-students $1; supper...
...Yiddish writer read an essay and his latest short story--a spare and gentle account of an American Jew's visit to his Polish parents--answered questions, and expounded an aesthetic theory in which "the essence of fiction is the study of character and individuality...