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Bintel Brief My daughter said I’m ‘code-switching.’ Is that such a bad thing?
Bintel helps a dad figure out if he hides Yiddish vocabulary due to internalized antisemitism
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Fast Forward Jews are kvelling over Steven Spielberg saying ‘kvelling’ at Golden Globes
Famed director used the word in acceptance speech for his semi-autobiographical film ‘The Fabelmans’
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Yiddish World Yiddish film offers authentic recreation of shtetl life before it was destroyed
The title leaves the ‘e’ out of ‘shtetl’ as a symbol of what was lost.
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Yiddish World Leonard Cohen once denounced Yiddish. Why did he perform this Yiddish folk song?
It may have been a way to work out his Holocaust trauma.
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Yiddish ייִדיש — אַ פּױלישע שפּראַך?Yiddish — a Polish language?
טייל פּױלישע לינגװיסטן טענהן, אַז במשך פֿון איר געשיכטע האָט ייִדיש זיך אויסגעפֿורעמט אונטער אַ שטאַרקער השפּעה פֿון פּױליש.
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Funny skit of Jewish diners at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas
In this YidLife episode, comics Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion can't agree on why this Jewish ritual is so popular
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: אוקראַיִנער ייִדן רעדן מער אוקראַיִניש; ערשטער כּשרער סופּערמאַרק אינעם גאָלף־ראַיאָןTidbits: Ukrainian Jews speak more Ukrainian; first kosher supermarket in the Gulf
אינעם 19טן יאָרהונדערט האָבן די אָרטיקע ייִדן אָנגעהויבן רעדן בלויז רוסיש, האַלטנדיק אוקראַיִניש פֿאַרן לשון פֿון די פּויערים.
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Yiddish World Six great Yiddish Hanukkah recordings
The playlist includes songs performed by the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus and the late iconic folksinger Pete Seeger
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