Word: yiddisher
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...love you fellows very much, and tomorrow we are going to show you how much we love you by laying a couple of eggs in your backyard." The Germans finally gave up: the last straw was when Baruch, who speaks seven languages fluently, began to kid them in Yiddish...
Died. Israel Joshua Singer, 50, bald, Polish-born Yiddish novelist (The Brothers Ashkenazi), since 1923 a member of the editorial staff of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...years ago the State of New York stood ready to execute a hammered-down, jug-eared little blackmailer, labor racketeer and murderer called Lepke (Yiddish affectionate variant of Louis) Buchalter...
...neighborhood east of the Bowery still keeps many features of its far from gay '90s. The uninspired yellow-brick Alliance building is one (not so the spacious playground near by). There, too, are the buildings of the leading U.S. Yiddish newspapers (The Jewish Daily Forward, The Jewish Day), a Hebrew teachers' seminary, Jankowitz' Yiddish Bookshop, the Hebrew National Kosher Sausage Co., and a fading group of bearded oldsters purchasing from street vendors outsize pretzels and freshly baked yams...
...Goldbergs is "Rags to Riches" with a Yiddish accent. Through the years The Goldbergs (Mama Molly, Papa Jake, Daughter Rosie, Son Sammy) have moved gradually from Manhattan's Lower East Side up Riverside Drive and, finally, into the green Connecticut countryside. Their snail's-pace success has been milestoned by the kind of homely moralizing which moves clerics to write friendly letters...