Word: yiddisher
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...humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help, even in 1944, even in Auschwitz, you could." And the response to Schindler's List is proof that the most offensive word in any language is forget...
Following closely behind the philosopher stood the one known only by his monosyllabic nickname: "Dersh." And Dersh thought as he walked, "Boy, this guy in front of me is all farshlayet (Author's note: far-SHLAY-eht, Yiddish for "all dressed up, like Robert Nozick")...But I don't feel challenged. These kids all saw Reversal of Fortune.. I mean, I got Claus von Bulow off, and they all know it! What's more, I'll give them the Talmudic or Yiddish story shpiel...They'll just eat that whole cute, ethnic identity thing...
...reviews have been so glowing, however. Critics have mourned the fact that Hollywood is now the arbiter of truth in American culture. A review last month in The Forward, a Yiddish newspaper in New York, complained that the movie did not show the gravity of the disaster, and that the movie's uplifting, "happy" ending detracts from the horror of the Nazi Holocaust...
...single. The Bad Religion soundis built on the sort of outrageously fast,aggressive and repetitive drum work associatedwith the early '80s Washington DC hardcore scene.The music of Bad Religion also owes a substantialdebt to, of all things, Klezmer. Klezmer wasinvented in Eastern Europe and has been kept aliveby Yiddish radio programs, bands who play barmitzvahs, and increasingly, by avant-garde jazzperformers. At its best, Bad Religion seamlesslyintegrates the soaring melodies of Klezmer withthe tasty fury of hard-core...
...another scene, Lana conspires in a public park with her lover (and car mechanic) to kill Ned in the one absurdly unlikely way that would triple her life insurance collection. To prevent other park visitors from overhearing their plot, they start speaking in Yiddish (with subtitles for the audience). After a few sentences are exchanged, the man sitting next to them on the bench indicates that he has been following the whole conversation by reading the subtitles...