Word: yiddishism
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...bookshelves of Dunster E-51 are stocked with commentaries on the Talmud, Yiddish folk tales and modern Hebrew texts. Clothes are strewn all over the floor...
...books demonstrate Cohen's passionate interest in religion and Yiddish literature. But his dresser, complete with a baseball cap adorned with two familiar cartoon characters, reveals another side...
There's an old Yiddish saying: If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Unless liberal rights advocates start proposing alternate solutions to the real social problems of the day, they will need a good shampooing...
...three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career--but not Maxene's. She went solo, wrote a memoir and recently helped...
...fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked by a Greek chorus that's all singing, all dancing and so Yiddish you could plotz. "I see catastrophe," one chorus member darkly intones. "Worse--I see lawyers...