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Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch
EX274_1571 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, compares Yiddish with the Amish language of Pennsylvania Dutch.
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"The Bottom Line" Comes from Yiddish: An Explanation
EX274_1577 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, explains how "the bottom line" is a loan translation, a phrase brought into English from Yiddish.
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Yiddish and English, Languages in Contact
EX274_1572 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, describes his interest in linguistic contact and in how language is used in daily life.
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The Strengths of Academia
EX274_1580 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, describes how Academia encourages better Yiddish teaching and dispels myths about the language.
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"Taking the Fruits of Our Knowledge Out to the Curious General Public"
EX274_1582 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, discusses the disparity between the public and experts' knowledge of a subject - and the benefits of academic outreach.
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The Way That People Speak
EX274_1573 Mark Louden, professor of linguistics, discusses his academic interest in how people use language and tells why he is fascinated by Hasidic Yiddish.
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Studying the History of Ashkenazim
EX221_1204 Sarah Bunin Benor - professor of Jewish studies and linguistics - explains her interest in the way the Yiddish language linguistically captured much of the Ashkenazim way of life.
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Rise of Yiddish in English
EX221_1205 Sarah Bunin Benor - professor of Jewish studies and linguistics - describes results of her research which show a surge in the use of Yiddish words by young people of Jewish communities,...
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"Learning English" with Itche Goldberg at Camp Kinderland
EX119_223 Lyber Katz - z"l, progressive activist, Yiddish translator and son of Moishe Katz - tells the story of his Camp Kinderland experience with the Yiddish journalist Itche Goldberg,who Lyber...
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Shlemiel vs. Shlimazl: Feeling "Fortunate" to Understand Yiddish
EX384_2807 Seweryn Aszkenazy, a developer and child Holocaust survivor, relates some thoughts on Yiddish words and their untranslatable qualities. Seweryn Aszkenazy
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Max Weinreich and Uriel Weinreich: Two Equal Colleagues
EX400_2416 Gabriel Weinreich - professor emeritus of physics, Episcopal priest, and son of Yiddishist Max Weinreich - remembers how his father and his brother, Uriel Weinreich, interacted as...
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Yiddish to Relate to the Past: Ilan Stavans on Languages as Glasses that...
EX427_2609 Ilan Stavans, academic and writer, talks about language as a lens through which to understand the world, and how Yiddish, Spanish, and Hebrew functioned for the community in which he grew...
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A Language "Fine-Tuned" to Explain Human Behavior: Yiddish
EX428_2649 David Sloviter, Yiddish Book Center board member and docent, talks about his sense of the innateness of Yiddish as a sensibility, even beyond language, and its simultaneous richness and...
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I Showed Up In A Green Suit: Yiddish Fieldwork in Hasidic Communities
EX447_2567 Jordan Kutzik, translator and Yiddishist, talks about his forays into the Yiddish-speaking communities of Hasidic New York.More from this narrator: Jordan Kutzik
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"Find the parts that really do resonate with you, and then pursue them”:...
EX505_2967 Miriam Udel, assistant professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, offers some advice to budding yiddishniks and those interested in Yiddish studies: you don't have...
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