Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow group contended that there was no official persecution or mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. Later, in an interview with TIME'S Friso Endt, the group's ranking member, Colonel General David Dragunski, raised doubts about his own Jewishness. When Endt asked whether he spoke Yiddish or Hebrew, Dragunski replied that he spoke neither, which is not unusual among Soviet Jews' But he also insisted that there was no difference between the two languages, which is not a mistake that many Jews would make. Then Endt tossed the general a Yiddish phrase that almost...
...lacks the privileges that other Soviet ethnic groups enjoy. Other nationalities, such as the Ukrainians and Armenians, have their own provinces where they can speak their language and exercise a degree of cultural autonomy. The Jew is forbidden his own schools, and he cannot learn Hebrew or Yiddish in the public schools; they simply are not taught. Since the 1940s, the Hebrew and Yiddish theater has been almost completely closed down. The only Yiddish periodical that is allowed to be published is a monthly journal edited by a party hack. The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin...
...Roof. However morally admirable, it is difficult, 22 years after the event, to work up a passionate present concern over the ordeal of founding Israel. This season, Broadway has seemed like a secular synagogue. Prior to Ari were The Rothschilds (pleasant) and Two by Two (puerile), plus the Yiddish shows Light, Lively and Yiddish and The President's Daughter. To all concerned, shalom and enough already...
...energies on her Republican opponent, Barry Farber, a local radio interviewer. Farber (who is Jewish) accused Mrs. Abzug (who is Jewish) of being anti-Israel. But Mrs. Abzug said she had long been active in Zionist causes and had underscored it by campaigning on the Lower East Side-in Yiddish. A lawyer who traveled to Mississippi to defend black clients in the mid-'50s, an organizer of Women Strike for Peace and an architect of the "Dump Johnson Movement," Mrs. Abzug was the darling of the city's ultraliberals. She sloganeered, "This woman's place...
Bunuel is an artist, and he knows he's a sinner; Rafelson makes movies, and has a saint's deadly obsession with truth. "What you can, do," goes another Yiddish proverb; "what you have, hold; what you know, keep to yourself...