Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines
Yiddish dialogue coach Miriam Isaacs found the actors, especially the children, in the new play quick and eager learners.
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Asian descendants of hidden Jews maintain their languages
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Why do so many Yiddish words in English have a German spelling?
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Prolific Yiddish conference organizer Philip ‘Fishl’ Kutner has died at 97
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The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
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Our authentic Jewish chicken soup is so rich in flavor, you hardly need to salt it
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You can now hear people speaking Yiddish in bars all over Berlin
A Yiddish conversation group meets biweekly at locations around the city. Other people think they’re speaking Swiss German.
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