[Ipg-smz] Things that suck

[Ellen Muraskin]

A *shod. *(A shame.)  I'm a boomer who also studied Yiddish in college.
Since my grandmother lived with us all my childhood, Yiddish *sounded *as
familiar to me as English; I just didn't know what the words meant.  After
college I had a lot of fun speaking it with my other grandmother, who lived
a lot longer.  My parents understood a lot but didn't speak it. Now I'm
going to start teaching it informally at my *shul*.  Which is a *chutzpeh*,
for sure. But *in dem land fun blindere*, the one-eyed man is king. We'll
use *Colloquial Yiddish*, by Lily Kahn.

Kvetch-22.  Love it.

Ellen Muraskin

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:55 AM Steve Wexler <
stevewexler.wordslingers at gmail.com> wrote:

> My great grandparents used to speak Yiddish, my grandparents rarely used
> it, and my parents never used it (as far as I can remember which isn't very
> far),
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 10:40, Tom Geller <tom at tomgeller.com> wrote:
>
>> On 22 Jan 2019, at 10:18, Ken Hess <kenneth.hess at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-forward-is-ending-its-print-edition-laying-off-staff/
>>
>>
>> I studied Yiddish in college, around 1988, and bought a copy of this
>> august paper (in der mama loshn) on a visit to NYC. I probably still have
>> it. I was amused by the number of ads for marriage brokers in the
>> "Klessifieds".
>>
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