Tag Yiddish

Bird cherry in Yiddish

In one of his December 2020 posts, Lost Yiddish words, LanguageHat quoted Rose Waldman’s recent piece in Tablet: I had grown up on Hasidic Yiddish. The Yiddish I spoke (and speak) is homey and friendly and gives me a sense…

You little bug

Don’t ask me how I came across this. Mort Sheinman, who worked as a reporter, news editor and managing editor for Women’s Wear Daily in 1960-2000, recalls speaking to actor Zero Mostel for the first time: A moment later, a…