[Ipg-smz] Things that suck

[Steve Wexler]

There are a lot of Yiddish words and expressions that have gained
popularity and some longevity (but I'm fairly certain Yiddish never came up
during the better part of six years in Israel).

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 11:33, Ellen Muraskin <ellenmuraskin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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