Does newspaper have a sound? Is it the rustling of paper? The pop-up ads of the digital world? The short films on the New York Times website? Or might it also be articles and editorials read aloud to ...
NEW YORK — Yiddish was the language spoken by Tevye the milk peddler and the other shtetl characters depicted in the stories that inspired “Fiddler on the Roof,” yet in this country the landmark ...
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Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...
(JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath ...
Words known to every lover of musical theater, the inspirational message of “Fiddler on the Roof” sings of hope, health and prosperity in the face of impending doom. But when you hear them in Yiddish, ...
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My Friend, J.B.M., who is as Nordic-Protestant-American as Oliver Wendell Holmes, recently of the United States Supreme Court (although not so old) startled me the other day by saying in a most casual ...