Old postcards and letters in Yiddish? I can help.
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#NotInTheDictionary
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Last night two Boston yeshiva boys found a man drowning in a water reservoir. They flagged down a police car. Man was barely saved, not conscious, brought to hospital. Policeman told boys that the man had a swastika tattoo on his hand. Boys' response: "Tell him a Jew saved him."
Boston yeshiva boys found a man drowning in a water reservoir. They flagged down a police car. Man was barely saved, brought to hospital. Policeman told boys that the man had a swastika tattoo on his hand. Boys' response: "Tell him a Jew saved him."
My wife successfully sniffed out a Jews 4 Jesus couple that moved into town & the post that set off her alarm was this from the woman to her husband:
I am so thankful HaShem put you as the head of our home.
And I'm laughing that THATS when my wife knew they weren't Jewish
The synagogue I went to for a year in Berlin, with a school inside that my daughter attended, had molotov cocktails thrown at it to burn it down. Now non-Jews are protecting the building with their bodies.
Trotz Dauerregens sind viele Menschen zur heutigen Mahnwache an die Synagoge in die Berliner Brunnenstraรe gekommen, die in der Nacht zu Mittwoch Ziel eines Brandanschlags war. โWir freuen uns sehr รผber die Unterstรผtzung von Nachbarn und Anwohnernโ, heiรt es von der Gemeinde.
Journalists being shown the horrors of the Hamas pogrom is reminiscent of the use of film (and camp visits) to show atrocities after World War II to make German soldiers and civilians understand what truly happened.
Hundreds of journalists and photographers from media companies all over the world attended today the screening of a film of assorted footage showing the extent of the horrors committed by Hamas.
Footage was taken from numerous sources, including from bodycams worn by the
Just caught the Fiddler on the Roof reference in
@SpongeBobBway
! As the volcano ๐ erupts and the Bikini Bottom residents make their "exodus," they sing "Bikini-tevka." Great show!
"A chassid comes up to me asking for a cigarette. I pull out a pack and give him one. He rips it in half and throws it down.
'You ask for a cig and then throw it away?'
'I stopped smoking a week ago, but I haven't given up shnorring (begging for stuff).'"
Some nice person is sending me a Yiddish typewriter they didn't want to throw away. They saw my name mentioned in the Wall Street Journal article on them and tracked me down.
My rabbi quoted and then translated "shtei shabosos" as "two shabbosim" in his speech today, multiple times.
Two different plural forms, one for Hebrew and one for Yinglish
Thanks
@MikeRNBCBoston
for reaching out to me and confirming the story!
Jewish Teens Don't Regret Helping Save Man With Swastika Tattoo | NBC10 Boston via
@nbc10boston
Why do we say Sholem Aleichem (hello, but in plural even when just talking to one person)?
My chavrusa learned because everyone has angels accompanying them, so one is also with company.
Duolingo Yiddish is coming out tomorrow April 6.
I'm just glad that I spent zero time trying to monetize a Yiddish learning website of my own.
And glad they didn't go with this flag
I told someone I wouldn't be making a meeting in April for Passover. They changed the meeting time (which is not really what I wanted tbh), and this is how the Google Calendar change went out to everyone
@JewWhoHasItAll
The Parks & Rec Dept. in
#Arlington
says residents are complaining about daycare children constantly using the parks.
They're proposing daycares/preschools in town pay anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 in fees to use them (money will be used to maintain parks)
Thoughts?
@wbz
About 30% of the Yiddish letters I translate are from E. Europe to the US, 1898-1937, referencing the transfer of money--
"Thank you for the 10 dollars".
"I haven't received it yet"
"I hope you didn't enclose it in the letter itself"
"You know how much I need it"...
Do you know of a language (other than Hebrew or Yiddish) that has a word for the relationship between these circled people?
As in, the woman on the left could say about the woman on the right: "She is my __________."
Ladybug ๐ in Yiddish is "Our Rabbi Moses's little cow" (moyshe rabeynus kiyele) ืืฉืึพืจืื ืืก ืงืึดืขืืข
Modern Hebrew took this as a calque from Yiddish.
Yiddish prob. made this word up to counter other European languages' references to the bug as "Mary's beetle"
#FunFact
#Yiddish
Kid, last night at the shabbos table:
"Isn't tonight kristall nacht?"
*record scratch*
The Jewish education wires got crossed
Kristall nacht โ nittel nacht
Or should Yiddish
@Duolingo
use the flag of the Jewish autonomous region Birobidzhan, with Yiddish as an official language? ๐โก
Things might get a little confusing
Is there a Yiddish way of counting seconds?
In America, we use one-Mississippi two-Mississippi
In England, it's one-Piccadilly, two-Piccadilly
In Germany, 21, 22, 23 (einundzwanzig, usw.)
But Yiddish? One-lokshnkugl?
My rabbi just texted me after 11PM. Texting/Calling late at night is directly proportional to how Orthodox you are (which also has a direct relationship to how afraid of dogs you are)
The Duolingo Yiddish effect:
A whole swath of people are going to start taking Yiddish on Duolingo, with its Hungarian Yiddish pronunciation.
These ppl will feed into academic Yiddish courses, with YIVO standard pronunciation, and ask:
Why are we learning with YIVO standard?
Ashton Kutcher says he sold his ticket on a Virgin Galactic flight into space because his wife, Mila Kunis, persuaded him that it wasn't a "smart family decision."
German Jews used to have (still do have?) cabbage soup today
Prayer today on
#HoshanaRaba
"kol mevaser" (in Hebrew) sounds like "Kohl mit Wasser" (cabbage with water)
Yiddish
@Duolingo
is creating a symbol for Yiddish that I do not like.
B/c the initiators couldn't make an easy "flag" for a non-Statist language, they found a random image online, posted it, and haven't changed it.
Now you can buy "Yiddish flags"
@ebay
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We need to do better.
It took me 3.5 hours to gather the willpower to call someone on the phone.
Then I had to leave a message.
Now I'm plagued with a phone call at anytime. Like a temporal minefield, it's going to hit when I least expect it.
Can't we all just agree to stop voice interactions?
As
@a_a_viswanath
pointed out, it is strange how the media outlets are framing Meena Viswanath as a "secular" Yiddish-speaking Jew vs. her Chassidic team members who put together Duolingo Yiddish.
Meena is Orthodox. Why is non-Chassidic Orthodox "secular"?
"Anyone who can speak
#Yiddish
at home but chooses to speak English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese with Yiddish-speaking Jews is a traitor, an enemy, a gravedigger of our holy mother tongue."
I often translate handwritten Yiddish first into ๐ฉ๐ช in my head. I don't regularly print out a letter to work on it, but here you can see my thought process. Especially important with this
#JudeoGerman
letter from 1927
Good Shabbos. The stabbing of one of our Boston rabbis is scary, even more somehow to learn the assailant was a resident of our neighborhood. After the vigil today, seeing a crowd assembled of many non-Jewish neighbors, I know I can walk around Brighton tomorrow safely. Thank you