A SYNCOPATED rhythm pounds behind an electric guitar in what sounds like a concert of modern music. But the words are an anachronism: They are sung in Yiddish. Mendi Kahane, a young Israeli composer, has launched a style until now unheard of: Yiddish rap.Edith Coron...
Hebrew is a Semitic language (a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, languages spoken across the Middle East), while Yiddish isa German dialectwhich integrates many languages, including German, Hebrew, Aramaic, and various Slavic and Romance languages. How do you use the word mensch? She is ...
Most English speakers are familiar with the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, but not many Brits or Americans are aware that in Hebrew and in Yiddish the musical’s greatest hit ‘If I were a Rich Man’ is sung “If I were a Rothschild.” In the following video you can listen to ‘If...
when he was still a young child he left the village to study with a rabbi in Montreal the Torah Hebrew the commentaries, a prodigy they said, he came back in the summer sometimes in the winter at fifteen sixteen to go up to the lumberjack camps and work with the men, my mother is ...
" or "woe is me!" Its Hebrew equivalent is oy vavoy (אוי ואבוי, ój vavój). What is the Yiddish word for balls? The Yiddish words for male and female genitals are too many to be discussed here, but one should be mentioned: beytsim, literally “eggs” ...
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the State of Israel. He actively fund-raised for Israel Bonds, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and helped establish two intercultural centers in Israel which bear his name. Due to his support of Israel, his recordings and films were banned by the Arab ...
He holds a D.Phil in Comparative Literature from the University of Sussex and is the author of Beauty and the Enigma and Other Essays in the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield), Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs (Sheffield Phoenix), and Hosea: a Commentary (Sheffield...
‘Mauschel’, the founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, angered by anti-Zionists, painted the weak ghetto Jew that Zionism was supposed to banish forever as the bad Jew who speaks with a Yiddish accent, a ‘scamp’, ‘a distortion of the human character, unspeakably mean and ...
All residents will be able to become Israeli citizens after five years, subject to a test in Hebrew and a loyalty oath. Sheizaf adds: Ariel’s ideas are in line with similar thoughts expressed by rightwing hawks recently, among them Moshe Arens, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, former chief ...