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Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Schmalz, a Yiddish word widely applied on Broadway to a certain type of singing and acting, means literally "rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Other Cheek | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Pink-cheeked Isaac Fishberg speaks only Yiddish and is a man of great spirit. In spite of his age, he gets up at 4 o'clock every morning to visit the synagogue, does the family marketing himself on the way home. He is infuriated if anyone suggests that his health is delicate. He has high blood pressure, but claims to enjoy it. He views most of his in-laws with tolerance, but would not live with any of his descendants for a prophet's ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Fishbergs and Borodkins | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

When Ben Hecht was six years old his aunt, Tante Chasha, took him to see a Yiddish play in which the hero was falsely charged with stealing a diamond bracelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aunt Chasha's Umbrella | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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