Leyzer Burko
By Leyzer Burko
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Yiddish World What sort of Yiddish did Jews in Hungary speak?
Hungarian Yiddish may be today's most common Yiddish dialect but many Hungarian Jews in the old country didn’t even speak Yiddish.
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Yiddish World The “golden age” of Yiddish-speaking criminals
Read this article in Yiddish. Jewish crime ain’t what it used to be. In 1908, New York Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham caused a scandal when he asserted in an article in the North American Review that half the city’s criminals were Jews. The Jewish community was outraged and Bingham was forced to retract his statement….
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The Schmooze ‘Yidlife Crisis,’ the First Yiddish Sitcom
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. “Yidlife Crisis” has been a long time coming. Back in the good old days — 60 or 70 years ago — there were Yiddish comedy serials on the radio, featuring the same cast of characters week after week. Unlike their English counterparts, however, these shows never…
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The Schmooze Congress For Jewish Culture Leaves Its Office, But Not Its Mission
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. On July 17, the New York Times reported that the Congress for Jewish Culture, one of the few remaining Yiddish organizations in New York, would close their Manhattan office at the end of the month. The Congress’s office space, on Broadway just off 26th street, was…
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