by Wex | Sep 6, 2010 | Jewish Week, Yiddish
Along with the shone toyves that I’ve been sending out to friends and family this year, I’ve been receiving New Year’s cards of another kind from politicians and Jewish communal figures whom I’ve been peppering with what are best described as instructional letters and...
by Wex | Aug 31, 2010 | FAQs
Sometimes I don’t always get it the first time… I have heard of a Yiddish expression that in English means “It saves two others.” However, I have never been able to find it or hear it in Yiddish. Can you provide the expression in Yiddish?...
by Wex | Aug 25, 2010 | FAQs
Here’s a lovely request we had from England recently: I am trying to translate the term ‘Welcome’ into Yiddish for a conference banner City and Hackney Mind are producing in London very soon! Can you help? If ‘Welcome’ is inappropriate...
by Wex | Aug 17, 2010 | FAQs
Jews are superstitious. What’s up with that? I think that this is a tradition, but I do not know how it came about. Why when we wish to avoid ain horah do we extend the pointer finger and the tall finger when we spit three times and then say poo, poo, poo? My...
by Marilla | Aug 15, 2010 | The Forward Hour
For the first half of 2006 Michael Wex recorded thirteen five-minute pieces in Yiddish for The Forward Hour, a Yiddish radio show from the Forward newspaper. Here is the twelfth show broadcast on June 3rd 2006. The Yiddish Forward Hour – 3rd June 2006 Below are...
by Wex | Aug 11, 2010 | FAQs
We get a lot of pronunciation queries. Here’s one: I’m currently in a production of ‘Ragtime’ in Chicago, and we’ve got a question about the pronunciation of the word “Tateh”. Given that he’s a Latvian Jewish immigrant...
