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Feb 4, 2020 · February 4, 2020 3:05 pm. NEW YORK ... the Yiddish term yenta came from the name Yentl, ... The most notorious yenta of all is Donald Trump, who tweets incessantly and dishes out insults as easily ...
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Dec 18, 2020 · 3.Uncut Gems. This clever, maddening Cassavetes-style, très New Yorkish crime thriller by the Brothers Safdie opened for Christmas last year. I saw it some weeks later in a movie theater—and ...
- Menahem-Mendl From Tel-Aviv (2016) This short film from Eran Torbiner and Yaad Biran is based on a feuilleton (a kind of literary supplement in newspapers) by Yosef Tunkel, a Yiddish writer from Belarus, that he wrote during a 1931 visit to pre-state Israel.
- Yidl Mitn Fidl (1936) Roughly translated as “The Little Yid (Jew) with his Violin,” this movie borrows its name from a popular Yiddish song. The story centers on the musician Arye and his daughter Itke’s experiences after they’ve been evicted from their home.
- Zay Gezunt, Jerusalem (2015) “Zay Gezunt” is a benediction that literally means as “be healthy,” but is usually translated just as “be well.” This short is fiction, but is based on real events in 1920 Palestine (pre-state Israel), which was then under British rule.
- Tevye (1939) This is a brief excerpt from a film by Maurice Schwartz, a Galician-born film actor and director in the United States. (The full 96-minute film can be purchased on DVD here.)
Feb 5, 2020 · The most notorious yenta of all is Donald Trump, who tweets incessantly and dishes out insults as easily as he leaks U.S. intelligence secrets. Sam Nunberg, one of his earliest 2016 presidential ...
Feb 4, 2020 · NEW YORK (JTA) — About 20 years ago, my friend Julia used to hang out with the legendary comedian Jackie Mason and tell me about their shenanigans. One evening when
The Yiddish Folk Arts Program beginning in 1985 for the next 30 years. A five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer, Sapoznik has been on over fifty records including having reissued over 30 anthologies of Yiddish, jazz, old-time, cantorial, ragtime, blues, Italian, swing, blackface minstrelsy and bluegrass recordings.
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May 9, 2019 · Fiddler on the Roof is Yiddish is an off-Broadway hit. Sherry Amatenstein talked to Jackie Hoffman who plays matchmaker Yente.
