Word: yiddish
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...Circulation size in the U.S. of the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward in the early 1930s, when its headquarters were located at 175 East Broadway, a 10-story office building with a facade featuring carved bas relief portraits of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx...
...Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard...
When you described the Klingon conference, it almost seemed as if those attendees were tortured by the language, which you described as "an ungodly combination of Hindi, Arabic, Tlingit and Yiddish, and works like a mix of Japanese, Turkish and Mohawk." There weren't a whole bunch of people speaking completely fluently, but there were four or five people who were amazingly fluent. Which is not easy. I met several people who had been trying to pass the certification exam for years. The language is like a puzzle. I guess it's no weirder than wanting to be really good...
...Yiddish literature professor Ruth R. Wisse said that it would be intellectually fulfilling to confront the greatest works that have shaped Western civilization, and that the canon reinforces the idea of a common culture in which everyone has a part. Committee members appear to have had even wider ambitions—proposing plans to integrate world literature into any great books program from the start, according to Damrosch...
...reactions and feel some sense of community in the theatre. The overall strength of the cast’s performance also helped forge a connection between those on and off stage. Scene I opens with Rachel E. Flynn ’09 conducting a funeral as a Yiddish rabbi—one of her many small roles in Part I, all of which are underscored by her knack for comedic timing and evocative facial expressions. It is soon revealed that the deceased is the grandmother of Louis Ironson, a neurotic gay Jewish lawyer. Gus T. Hickey...