[Ipg-smz] Things that suck

[Steve Wexler]

TV was almost nonexistent on my kibbutz in the '70s (or in the army), but I
vaguely remember "Bonanza" in Arabic.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 15:15, Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Steve Wexler wrote:
> > 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).
>
> OTOH, the Israel TV series "Shtisel"
> (https://www.netflix.com/title/81004164) (see show summary below) has a
> fair number of people speaking Yiddish to each other.
>
> "A Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem
> reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life."
>
> P.S. Bobbi (my SO) says that a lot of the English sub-titles are bad
> translations of what's being said in Hebrew... much more so, than, say the
> ones on the Israeli series "Srugim."
>
>
>
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