Word: yiddishisms
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...from European concentration camps have been filtering in, bringing the dress, customs and fears of the Old World's Orthodox Jews. Synagogues stand on almost every corner; the streets are full of men with long beards and skullcaps; store signs are written in Hebrew, and their clerks speak Yiddish. Wig salons thrive-many women shave their heads, according to Orthodox custom...
...These individuals who prate about slavery do not hesitate to join in this communistic movement to enslave the white people of America . . . You have an illustration now. Our Yiddish Solicitor General has taken it upon himself to go into the Supreme Court and misrepresent the American people. . . by . . . trying to wipe out all segregation . . . This is a part of the communistic program, laid down by Stalin approximately 30 years ago. Remember communism is Yiddish. I understand that every member of the Politburo around Stalin is either Yiddish or married to one, and that includes Stalin himself...
...rubber-faced Dancer Weidman proved himself just about the master mime and top funny man of modern dance. ¶Sophie Maslow's Festival, an excerpt from an unfinished work called The Village I Knew, based on the folk tales of great Yiddish Storyteller Sholem Aleichem. With an apt little score by Samuel Matlowsky to help, Choreographer Maslow caught all the gay sentimental charm of Aleichem's folk-dancing village, and the Dudley-Maslow-Bales trio and the New Dance Group danced it with flashing style and color...
Plunging from a chuckle to a shout, bellowing into a telephone in his broad Yiddish accent, flourishing an unlit cigar, Dubinsky directs this show with shirt-sleeved zest and an even hand. Says he: "You've got to be on your toes, not on your bottom...
...gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they and Choreographer Humphrey had won an ovation. New works by other American Dance Festival regulars, including Sophie Maslow's fine but unfinished Festival, based on stories by Yiddish Story Writer Sholom Aleichem, and Jane Dudley's wispy Vagary (music by Bela Bartok), suffered by comparison...