Word: yiddishisms
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...street is a long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...
...comeback it was not Sunset Boulevard. But when Eddie sang People Will Say We're in Love and So Far, the Rodgers and Hammerstein schmalz was chicken fat of the highest quality. He threw Yiddish words into the German version of Mack the Knife and kept a straight face while delivering Never on Sunday in Greek (Spyros Skouras had sent a telegram spelling out the lyrics...
...specialty to compensate for his lack of leadership qualities. His rather routine work of compiling dossiers on "subversive elements" suggested a convenient subject-the Jews, who were the pet phobia of der Fŭhrer himself. Eichmann began reading Jewish history and religion, made an effort to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. He dazzled his colleagues-whose hatred of Jews was only equaled by their ignorance about them-with speeches on such abstruse subjects as the factional differences between two small Zionist groups-Poale-Zion and Zeire-Zion...
...trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial's stern security measures were gracefully applied: one radio newsman who surrendered a broken tape recorder for police inspection got it back repaired...
...writing in the magazine, most notably Miss Kegan's essay on Hasidism and neo-Hasidism, reads as if written primarily for Mosaic's editors and writers, rather than for the general Jewish audience. Only self-indulgence by the editors can justify the magazine's almost exclusive concern with the Yiddish, eastern European aspects of Jewish life, feeling, and culture. Not all of Mosaic's readers will sympathize with this flight back to the ghetto...