Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When people ask me what elements are used in my writing, it's like asking a chicken what chemicals it used in laying an egg," Isaac Bashevis Singer, the noted Yiddish author of The Magician of Lublin and A Day of Pleasure, told an audience of 600 in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
Tough Fellow. Challenges have never been unwelcome or unfamiliar to Goldstein. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant who sold fruits and vegetables from a pushcart on New York's Lower East Side, Goldstein spoke only Yiddish at home since his parents could not speak English. He mastered English so well, however, that he earned high marks at C.C.N.Y. and later at Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the law journal. After graduation, he served in the Army as a demolitions specialist and counterintelligence agent in Europe. Goldstein later clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge David Bazelon, then...