The other Klezmatics originals and what Lorin Sklamberg tells me is a Yiddish mode.
They came together in the theater, whether the plays were performed in Yiddish or English.
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But support groups and Yiddish classes are no guarantee more people will become practising Jews.
Ninety percent of feather merchants in the Cape of South Africa were Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Lithuania.
The Lower East Side once boasted 14 Yiddish theatres, with five on Second Avenue alone.
Words of Yiddish origin include bagel, lox, blintze, nosh, kosher, kibitz, klutz, tush, schlemiel, spiel and schlep.
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Many Jews, in any case, had always found Yiddish theatre vulgar and the language an embarrassing hybrid.
He learned both Hebrew and Yiddish, and his mother wanted him to be a Talmudic scholar or a rabbi.
Subjects range from traditional textual study to art, theatre, Yiddish literature, Israeli politics, ancient Jewish music and Torah chanting.
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At the Galicia Jewish Museum there are klezmer music concerts, film shows, and even Hebrew and Yiddish classes on offer.
That's tsatske from the Yiddish, meaning roughly pretty, shiny stuff that might make you unhappy, but you'd never buy for yourself.
That woman would have dropped a Yiddish sonic boom on anybody and anything that got in the way of her vote.
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The word that springs to mind is neither French nor English, but one in New York's unofficial second language, Yiddish: chutzpah.
In an initial lineup, only one witness recognized Ranta, and that was after a lengthy conversation with a Yiddish interpreter, they noted.
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The winning word for 2013 was from German-derived Yiddish, a source of much amusement to champion Arvind Mahankali, 13, of Bayside Hills, N.
At the newsstand out front of the corner candy store, ten times more customers bought the Racing Form than the Yiddish daily, the Forvertz.
Wherever there were Yiddish-speakers, and memories of the shtetl longing to be resurrected, she would play the crucial, central role of the blushing village bride.
The young Aaron had been protected from Christianity, kept inside during Christian festivals and made aware that his grandfather had been a Yiddish-speaking rabbi in Silesia.
The Bloomberg name is an Anglicisation of Blumberg, in Yiddish, or German, and the Cameron speech started with some solid historical roots for the European project.
Another was that Yiddish theater brought middle-class German Jews into the same theater with lower-middle-class Russian Jews, to see the same dramas and hear the same music.
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Diners read Shanghai papers printed in German, Polish, even Yiddish.
Miriam Udel-Lambert, a professor of Yiddish language, literature and culture at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says she had an active spiritual life before she got married and had two sons.
It was defined by Yiddish, by Jewish newspapers, by the Farband, which provided such services as burial plans for families of immigrants, by left-wing politics and by dowdy, quixotic Camp Kinderwelt.
But Crystal and his co-writers (Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) aim to get behind the ironic mask of this Yiddish harlequin and reveal the fierce ambition and bitterness that fuel his put-downs.
The subject of its first portrait is Camp Kinderwelt, a summer camp in New York's Catskill mountains whose mixture of Zionist fervour and Yiddish vernacular never, in an American context, had a chance.
"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.
Two miles away, though, a Yiddish-speaking culture of a different kind took root and thrived: a township called Kirias Joel peopled by the Hasidic Satmarer sect, Jews at their most pious and least worldly.
Irving Berlin grew up speaking Russian and Yiddish.
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Long beards, yarmulkes and Yiddish jokes abound.
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If you were lucky, like we were, you also got: some quality family time, the Four Questions read to you in Yiddish and dark chocolate-covered frogs and locusts for dessert, representing two of the 10 plagues that befell Egypt.
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