Alright Already! Yiddish is expressive youse Goyim need to invest wisely

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Okay, this is a thread to honor Yiddish, which is a Germanic language that was used by European Jews for centuries, and it is a dying language, unfortunately. I don’t know a lot of it, but this site will help. So, you miserable Goyim, take heed and learn

Yiddish phrases and words

Oh, how we suffer, mein sheynah meydlihiem! Oh, to see Jeruselem in it’s glory! Next year in Jeruselem!
 
First of all, does anyone in this place know about ‘hide the matza’? This is an ancient Jewish ritual of the highest order, with the winner winning a fortune of enviable wealth, known as ‘gelt’.
 
Best book for non-Yiddish speakers–“The Joys of Yiddish” by Leo Rosten. It’s a very funny, informative book that’s aimed at Jew and Gentile alike.
 
Ah, such a mensche to mention that book. Your mother must’ve raised you right! And, have you called her? After she gave you the best years of her life! Call your mother, mein kin!
 
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spiritblows:
Okay, this is a thread to honor Yiddish, which is a Germanic language that was used by European Jews for centuries, and it is a dying language, unfortunately. I don’t know a lot of it, but this site will help. So, you miserable Goyim, take heed and learn

Yiddish phrases and words

Oh, how we suffer, mein sheynah meydlihiem! Oh, to see Jeruselem in it’s glory! Next year in Jeruselem!
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thank you for sharing,Bubbala…you’re a real Mensch!:clapping:
 
Hi all!

Did you ever see the 1996 movie City Hall with Al Pacino as John Pappas, the Greek American Mayor of New York City & John Cusack as Kevin Calhoun, the mayor’s Louisiana-born Catholic assistant. One of the charming things about the movie (aside from the fact that it was very good) was Cusack’s ongoing education in colloquial New York Yiddish, which he learned from his Greek American boss, the Irish American woman attorney (Marybeth Corgan, played by Bridget Fonda) he was trying to hit on & a Jewish friend. See imdb.com/title/tt0115907/quotes:
Kevin suggests distancing themselves from a man in trouble]
Mayor John Pappas: “Distance”! Distance is something you do to your enemies. It’s a thing of the nineties, to make friends extinct. Distance… is the absence of menschkeit!
Kevin Calhoun: Translate that for me.
Mayor John Pappas: You don’t know what menschkeit means?
Kevin Calhoun: No, I don’t.
Mayor John Pappas: Menschkeit, you know… something between men… it’s about honor, and character… untranslatable. That’s why it’s Yiddish.
Kevin Calhoun: I didn’t know you’d taken up the language.
Mayor John Pappas: Abe laid it on me.
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and
Kevin Calhoun: And you’re just going to wait under that plastic awning for an hour and then ride a Queens bus and then slep on the subway into Manhattan -
Marybeth Cogan: interrupting] Schlep! Schlep! Not slep, schlep!
Kevin Calhoun: Schlep?
Marybeth Cogan: Get the gumbo out of your Yiddish.
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Be well!

ssv 👋
 
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First of all, does anyone in this place know about ‘hide the matza’? This is an ancient Jewish ritual of the highest order, with the winner winning a fortune of enviable wealth, known as ‘gelt’.
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I thought ‘hide the matza’ was another type of euphemism.
 
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