Word: yiddisher
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...published stories, their translation into Yiddish and their publication for the benefit of the Jews . . . would give me nothing but heartfelt pleasure...
...literary distance was not so great as appeared. Before Rabinovich's own death in New York in 1916, he had become an international figure, acclaimed as the Yiddish Mark Twain...
...narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture of gallic pride, English cynicism, and mostly, Yiddish fatalism. He is a foil who ventures quixotically into the world and then returns, each time, to testify that it is far more looney than...
...portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish whisper. Though the actress spent hours watching news and documentary footage of Golda, she only saw the grande dame of Israeli politics brighten once-in an old segment of TV's This Is Your Life. "They were all so serious, those films," says Bergman...