Beautiful!!

Isch bin Pälzische-Daidsche-jiddische(messianische) unn isch verstehe 😊

Scierwo zydowskie

Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn

Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII. I’m glad you made it here safe. Thank you for sharing the your grief, struggle and strength.

May hashem bless you and protect you.

He wasn't totally correct in that Yiddish will fade, that isn't a living language, just go to certain sections of Brooklyn. Lol the Chasidic community, it's their FIRST language.

Needed this right now. Struggling with disentangling my Jewish identity from Zionism and the horrors in Israel-Palestine. Thank you 🙏

Saw this guy on two episodes of Person of Interest years ago, and I've never forgotten his face. Memorable and talented.

Loved the documentary. Really went in to detail and the people that grew up there painted a picture in your mind of their childhood.

Bless his life and all his care for others in such a time of war.

In other yiddish speaking regions the superstition was the "Boser Oig"

Why did this happen? How was it legal?

I wish I knew more about my great grandpa Wendelen Axtman and grandma Evelyn Axtman, who supposedly were germans who fled to Odesa.

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TNO Nakam moment

One of the things we must remember is to call out antisemitism whenever we see it. Never again.

Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn

Reminds me of my Mexican grandmother, who would sing songs about hard times in Mexico, folk songs transmit feelings across time

Saya daftarkan : Hansijoachim Carlos Sitorus

Aww. If only my old IBM Selectric 1 typewriter was where I knew where it was (moved apartments) I would write something. I wish you had shown the keys and the printed sheet more closely. I am low vision and need large print. I never knew there was a Yiddish typewriter!

molly fogarty is an irish name

Thank you for sharing your story. This history is so very important!

This gentleman put the argument for atheism so succinctly! Good short oral history video.

Saddest ending ever good god!

I think Yiddish is a far more interesting language than Hebrew. Modern Hebrew sounds like if you asked AI to create a semitic language. It sounds fake. Yiddish on the other hand sounds so unusual, in a good way. It's a beautiful language. And the words sound like what they mean. Words like kluts or shmuck roll off the tongue so well. I hope it stays alive.

My Grandfather was exactly the same!! A TRUE religious man!!

I'm not even Jewish and I find this interview amazing and so intriguing. Amazing to hear Nimoy speak Yiddish. Totally new respect for this man.

What a great video! Why does that have so few views??

A lot of really old Klezmer recordings are usually played at 78rpm, but that is often the wrong speed. Especially with the European recorded stuff like the Belfa Orchestra, or the Russisch-Jüdische Orchester, but also with Columbias like Abe Schwartz or Naftule Brandwein etc you have to increase the playback speed to match the recorded speed.

Saarland, Germany uses "ebbes" or "eppes" as well

I have the 78 on the Apollo label he made in the late 1940s, where he sings this. Also a version fromm 20 years earlier by Morris Goldstein on the Okeh label. A great song

I'm Italian-American and grew up in Brooklyn. I know more Yiddish words than Italian.

I love this. And his is my favorite Jewish joke

Glory to them.

My mother was born in the West End.

My background has a name which has documentation through Sephardic Portuguese in the Netherlands and my dna has chromosomes from Western, Central, Eastern Europe, and Viking and a distant castle.

Wonderful!! ❤

Sounds like a mix of Dutch, French and Swiss German to me 😂

Ohne Perück !!! Hahaha what a great man. Thank you so much for this.

Does anybody know where to get Hamlet Yiddish version ( ISBN Number ) he spoke ? Thank you

Interesting

Seems logical.

The German officer knew what he was doing.

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I’m so pleased I found this video, my great aunt used to say this to me when I was a child and I have never in my 65 years understood the meaning. So thank you 🙏 kina hora is more than ever necessary as my mantra for now until peace in Israel. On the eve of October Kina hora 🕊️🆓🇮🇱🇬🇧🕊️🩵🩷🩵

This song is still taught at Sholem Aleichem College and Pre School in Melbourne. We sang this last night at our seder. Every person had a sign with a line from the song eg “mir bagrisn”, “hoykh un klor” and as their line was sung they had to stand up holding their sign up and groove. We swapped signs to repeat the song a few times. So much fun

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Because what's not kept is lost

I didn't know Monte Hall was Jewish. He may have been one of those celebs that "Anglicized" his name to better fit in and not be ostracized in any way.