Word: yiddish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in Poland, Chall moved to New York at seven, speaking only Yiddish. She learned English and over the next few years taught her parents how to read in English...
...miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...
Sollors said that over the last 30 years, there has been decreased enrollment in several foreign European languages, with the exception of Spanish. Instead, he said students have grown more interested in studyingKorean, Arabic and Yiddish...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse also rose during the open question period to ask about the administration's responsiveness to student voices...
...outcome of the plot are the ways in which these two characters cope with their circumstances. One, Pinchas, is trapped in Stalin's vengeful Russia, and the other, Natan, lives in a nation experiencing a different sort of convulsive conflict. One story is told in the voice of a Yiddish storyteller, and the other in the voice of an up-to-date journalist/poet. Framing the collection, these two stories delineate Englander's troubled path from history to modernity and between Orthodoxy and secularism...