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...Billy Crystal) in the prodigiously funny biopic Mr. Saturday Night. A Jewish kid with a talent to amuse, Buddy lusts for those irreconcilable opposites: to be loved and to be himself. To be all-American and 100% kosher. Buddy begins by facing a Catskills audience so primed for Yiddish comedy that when he says, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen," a guy in the front row keens, "Oy! English!" He ends in Florida, nearly a half-century later, doing the same routines for an invalid army of the Jewish sun set. In between he tries -- so hard he tries -- to break...
Coming: McGill University Yiddish Professor RUTH WISSE joined the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. ELIZABETH S. NATHANS took over as dean of first-year students...
Coming: McGill University Yiddish Professor RUTH WISSE joined the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department. ELIZABETH S. NATHANS took over as dean of first-year students...
Wisse, who fill a new chair in Harvard's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, said the Harvard library system has an excellent Yiddish collection...
Next year Wisse will teach courses in Jewish writing in America and the works of two Yiddish authors. Both courses will be open to undergraduates and taught in translation...