Word: yiddisher
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Horniman wrote the piece. An anachronism: accents of the players include thick Yiddish, light Mayfair, stage English, un-aspirated Cockney, none of which sounded entirely authentic...
...except when integrity was obviously the best policy. Metternich made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...
...expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have to get along without its old man for some time now. It is odd that John
...spite of this self-satisfied air among the Jews of America there is no lack of Jewish problems in America. Above all there is the problem of assimilation which is making big strides. The younger generation does not understand Yiddish...
George Washington, father of his country, stands not far from a Yiddish scholar in another picture, melancholy in their modern environment...