shtetl has a hand up the dress
This week Shtetl on the Shortwave has “A hant untern kleydl” (A hand up the dress)! Tune in and find out about two bohemian Yiddish puppeteers, Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler, from New York’s Lower East...
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Rules of Yiddish Fight Club
Certain situations require the right turn of phrase. If, for instance, you need to hip check your rabbi or, if you feel an unquenchable desire to bitch-slap the cantor, there is a uniquely Jewish...
View ArticleSuicide, Oh My God TV & Halal-a-days
Writer and Yiddish Prof. Eddy Portnoy makes a hobby of rummaging through the old European Yiddish press for the daily tales of the Jewish masses. In this audio piece, based on an article in Tablet...
View ArticleYiddish Fight Club & Joni Mitchell
Yiddish Fight Club? Learn the language of the scrappy Jews with Eddy Portnoy. They weren’t afraid to fight and they had plenty of Yiddish words to describe their pugilistic ways. Check out the YIVO...
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