Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SIMON No, let me ask you one. Why do you speak with Yiddish locutions? My audience isn't exclusively Jewish. Neither are my characters. Not any more, any way. Matter of fact, I still recall a black man pointing to a figure in my first play, Come Blow Your Horn, and insisting, "That's my father...
...author, who began collecting Yiddish aphorisms in his childhood and continued throughout a distinguished academic career, provides a fine sketch of Jewish social character in the introduction. He is nothing if not thorough...
HILLEL suggest two ways of celebrating Chanukah this week, Dec. 1. PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE. Laurence Senlick reads Sholom Aleichem at a Sabbath Table Talk at 8:45 p.m. Dec. 3, SANDERS THEATRE. Nehama Lilschitz Yiddish. Hebrew and Russian Folksongs, 5 p.m. followed by a Chanukah supper in MEMORIAL HALL Concert, students 92, non-students $1; supper...
...Yiddish writer read an essay and his latest short story--a spare and gentle account of an American Jew's visit to his Polish parents--answered questions, and expounded an aesthetic theory in which "the essence of fiction is the study of character and individuality...
...once renowned singing Pickens Sisters, seems to think that the House seat can be had for a song. It goes, "Jane Pickens Langley is a woman who cares./ Jane Pickens Langely is a woman who dares./ So pick good Pickens." This singing commercial, taped in German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish, underpins a breezy, almost folksy campaign against Incumbent Edward I. Koch, 47, a hard-working Democrat. In his appearances at subway and bus stops, Koch stresses his attempts to wrest mass-transportation money from road-subsidy funds, and emphasizes his recent proposal to admit Soviet Jews and Asian Ugandans...