Menahem-Mendl From Tel-Aviv (Yiddish short film; English subtitles)

Hebrew: לכתוביות בעברית: • מנחם מנדל מתל אביב | M...
"The Colonist" or "The Menahem-Mendl" from Tel Aviv - a feuilliton by the Yiddish humorist Yosef Tunkel, was written during his visit to Palestine in 1931, and places a comic-critic mirror in the face of the Hebrew City, utilizing the image of Menahem-Mendel. This character, created by Sholem Aleichem, was a common term for a person making a living out of thin air, and was a popular discourse among the residents of Tel Aviv, who wished to detach themselves from the economy patterns attributed to Jews in Eastern Europe. Did they succeed in doing so?
Created by Eran Torbiner and Yaad Biran

[@maxkuminov8322]

It was exciting to hear the words that clearly came from the Russian language: vopros (question), muzhik (peasant), po delo (on business), proshenie (application) etc. what an incredible mix of cultures Yiddish has. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Design770]

Very well done! To hear Mamme Loshen in todays world is Honey for the soul!

[@sagupalguable]

A gem of short film.

[@katharinahuth4242]

Shalom a zer shejne film

[@micka4434]

thanks so much for this amazing piece of art. brilliant actors.

[@peterherman4078]

Yosef Tunkel was amazing and you have done an incredible service here!!

[@yehudayannay]

Really lovely...filmed in my former neighborhood in Tel-Aviv

[@philipnehiley6579]

In the irish culture we'd call him a "Gombeen". "He'd talk the horns off a billy goat!".😎

[@rezajafari6395]

I’m a Russian who speaks German so I understand most of it

[@ruhmuhaccer864]

Yeah the vapros for frage caught me off guard.

[@RonLWilson]

Cool!

[@veroniqueh.9782]

אדאנק

[@TrilloSuede]

זײער שײן. א גרױסע הנאה דאָס צו זען.

[@sergeygrant7866]

I'm no expert in Yiddish nor Hebrew but I keep hearing lekhem where I expect broyt for example. I also heard baaretz but I know that "in" is "in" in Yiddish. Is the guy using more Hebrew than Yiddish contains? I have more examples, like avoda instead of arbetn but the point is pretty much the same. Then I hear words like shamayim but I don't actually know of a specific Yiddish word for sky in Yiddish, so I can't really comment there.

[@TheLittleRussian2]

Sergey Grant My guess is that he's using local terms as he's a local character whose Yiddish has been influenced by Hebrew; similarly the abundance of Russian expressions (which the actor bless his soul tends to butcher) indicates that he's likely to have come from Russia.

[@annemburada6265]

himl?

[@AlexToussiehChannel]

Yiddish is not a very clear cut language so it's just normal for real Yiddish speakers to mix Hebrew and German at will, and sometimes even Aramaic or other languages (he did that in this video, for example, he said "Dehayne" which they translated as "meaning" and it's דהיינו which is an Aramaic word from the Talmud).

[@maxspindler1218]

Most people's response to Hebrew (Leshon Kodesh) in Yiddish is surprise. But if you read the original Shalom Aleichem short stories you will be surprised at how much Hebrew they contained. The early writers of Yiddish literature were very well educated in Hebrew and could speak it well. It was, however, Ashkenazi dialect, not the current Sephardi spoken inmost of the world.

[@goldersgreen2177]

Himmel is Sky in Yiddish

[@dydysh99]

Земледелец I heard that word well :))

[@nicholastaylor2355]

The most recent Yiddish dictionary is: "Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary" by Mordkhe Schechter, Indiana University Press (2016) ISBN 978 0 253 02282 0

[@serhataltuntas3123]

lessons from the bestens hertsykm donk menszen zajt gezynt

[@Danielseven-ir2mq]

הנאה געהאט צו זען. ביטע לייג ארויס נאך ​​אידישע ווידיאו. א שיינע דאנק.

[@user-ih8qs7lt5u]

גוט איז צי זיין א קאלאניסט??? פארשטייט זיך נאר אויב מען היט די תורה

[@Business_page_waz]

Yeah it’s not like the Egyptian Arabs had to live with cats and dogs before

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

Where Yiddish is spoken?

[@nomadnametab]

mostly in bigger cities with jewish populations. its fading away but there are efforts to revive it.

[@samuelattias6559]

Not very good English translation

[@jaywho476]

With all due kavod, there's way too much Ivrit peppered in to the Yiddish. He is no Shimon Dzigan.

[@BethShalomAleichem]

You might be interested in a little book called The Bible. It's in Loshn-Koydesh. Jews often quote from it. :-)

[@rosinelob6396]

But this is a text of the "Tunkeler" ... and the narrator respects this text!

[@ashoknayaki7776]

Audio bible Install

[@ashoknayaki7776]

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