Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the celebrated one-man band of Yiddish literature, has not yet appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show, and such folderol may, indeed, have no part in his plans. But some of his remarks last week after he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm suggest that, were he to do so, he and Muppetmaster Jim Henson might have a fruitful conversation as they waited for the cameras to be set up. An excerpt...
...Corky's agent (called the Postman because he always delivers), Burgess Meredith adds a few Yiddish mannerisms to his trainer role in Rocky. Despite the film's effort to stifle Ann-Margret under bulky sweaters, her performance as Peggy Ann shines with just the right mixture of warmth and wistfulness. Hopkins and she play well together, both...
...still interested in Singer's work, which he mostly wrote in Yiddish, you would be foolish to drop by a talk on "The Place of Yiddish Literature in East European Culture" next Monday at 4:30 p.m. in Boylston Auditorium since Chone Schmeruk, a professor at Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, will not be giving the lecture...
...went on to employ dozens of translators-including Joseph, I.J. Singer's son. Though Isaac Bashevis Singer has long since gained fluency in English, he continues to write in his mother tongue. "It strikes one as a kind of inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels, ten children...