Season 1, Episode 4: Bastards (YidLife Crisis)

[@PhillyFrank1]

I may have to do a restaurant tour of Montreal based just on these guys' videos.

[@DCFunBud]

"Je me souvlaki." That is inspired!

[@kittlee3704]

I just loved this. It has everything I enjoy: food, culture and fun. Thank you both!

[@yidlifecrisis]

Thank you too!

[@yoonalee9321]

you two complement each other wonderfully

[@warrenisrael179]

When I'm in a bad mood or a have to deal with anti Semitic. This makes me do happy because it reminds me of my grandmother Lily who died three years ago and she spoke fluent yiddish

[@suzitozer3636]

Absolutely love Yid Life Crisis and share it with all my family and friends. Keep it up!

[@yidlifecrisis]

A dank Suzi!

[@monoeugen]

You guys are simply amazing, as well as the music :)

[@ffluvssg1]

I recently found out that in addition to being French Canadian on my mother's side, I am Jewish on my father's side. A friend recommended this series and I am starting at the beginning. Your description of being Jew-ish speaks to me perfectly right now! Looking forward to the rest, including Montreal area locations I assume.

[@Research0digo]

These are so awesome! I'm glad I stumbled onto you two!

[@jeanneamato8278]

Food for thought. Love you guys.

[@rickeyrincones1769]

I'm not Jewish but I've always loved the culture...glad I stumbled upon this, hilarious 😂

[@1951kvk]

You two are hilarious. My paternal grandmother spoke Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish has always sounded so familiar to me.

[@yidlifecrisis]

How do you say "Have a peaceful Sabbath" in Pennsylvania Dutch? #GutShabbes

[@hellbooks3024]

@@yidlifecrisisHow do you say האַק נישט קײן טשײַניק in Pennsylvania Dutch?

[@marykaufman9805]

Clever, smart and talented. Love their videos.

[@jaymandelker6632]

You menchen are terrific. I practically 'geh-peedered' in der hoisen. I was plutzing! I just subscribed and look forward to more of your antics and improving mine language skills. A blessing auf dine keppies.

[@ieuanhunt552]

What the hell am i watching and why do I like it so much?

[@yoonalee9321]

lol feel the same way

[@dannywerner6599]

cause it's geshmak as fuck

[@leonamay8776]

Because it's besht.😉

[@franceleeparis37]

This is the face of modern comedy... and it’s brilliant... and no PC anywhere .. welcome to the pleasure dome

[@evelynshaller-auslander4970]

They keep getting better!

[@margiesilver9565]

I have sent your videos to all of my other ex-Montrealer friends here in the galus in Toronto. Brilliant! One observation though - in my day, we didn't choose between bagels and souvlaki. We simply ordered souvlaki to eat while waiting in line for bagels. I also hope that you are going to do something on Montreal pizza - there is still nothing like a Montreal "all dressed" pizza (with the ball of baked dough in the middle).

[@MichaelButchin]

LOL! "WHAT HAVE THE GREEKS EVER DONE FOR US?!" 😂

[@RobertDombiphotography]

Love it, they are ever so funny :)

[@DrStoooopid]

I think you guys should go visit Rabbi Bernath. I don't know if he speaks Yiddish, but I'm sure he would love the opportunity to be on the show. He's quite the hip rabbi. You can find him at NDG, in Montreal.

[@Meirstein]

Four episodes and not a single JDate reference. I am disappointed in you guys, that's comedy gold right there.

[@yidlifecrisis]

If it makes you feel better, the whole point of creating the series was to find a circuitous way for us to date Jewish girls. At last count, we probably would have been better off with JDate. (At some point, we do hope to cover modern Jewish dating in one of our epess-sodes. Stay tuned).

[@andreamuraskin5364]

@@yidlifecrisis epess-sodes! Love it! I'm single fyi if you wanna come to Boston

[@marz8852]

Love this. Thank u!

[@hank1519]

So great!

[@reflexojustin]

I love it!!

[@jaymayhoffer5845]

When will you be bringing in the Galitzianer Kramer

[@TomGeek1980]

LOL you had me at GREEK!!!!!!!!!

[@desertsky2213]

Where is the next one :'( ???????????

[@hankdavid9142]

The only reason I wanted to brech while watching their fourth installment-- Mamzerim--was because of how I was traumatized...having been born upstairs from Arahova. Every day I've been reliving the stench of trayf.....Wait a minute; Arahova wasn't open then. OMG! SHMALTZ HERRING! It was the shmaltz herring from Levine's grocery store! That's the farkackteh smell I've had stuck in my schnozz all these years. With one video, these guys have done what shrinks, ear nose & throat specialists, cocaine, my ex-girlfriend who would--uh, never mind about that, anyway...they've done it! I'll never say "farshtinkineh" again. Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty (and the two YidLife Crisis boychiks), I'm free at last. (Oh, I actually was born upstairs from there)

[@yidlifecrisis]

We're grateful! And... sorry? Guilty? All of the above. We are Jews, after all...

[@VieilleCroute]

Très Montréal comme série, j'aime bien.

[@cyndir1319]

love the music, where can i buy that?

[@yidlifecrisis]

Great question - if you're referring to the music off the top and at the end, that's Socalled, who is nothing short of amazing, and you can buy his music here: itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/socalled/id204516571

[@Research0digo]

Is episode three (this one) the end of season one, please? Do I watch season two episode one, now?

[@jjero1]

Really enjoying these. Any chance of sharing the scripts or adding yiddish subtitles?

[@yidlifecrisis]

Thank you - and Yes! We absolutely want to do that. The scripts will eventually be up on our official website www.YidLifeCrisis.com - sign up for our newsletter on the site for updates about what we're posting and all the latest jewcy gossip...

[@maxlafortune7059]

Love this.. but does anyone know the name of the song at the begging and end? Would help alot!

[@GinnyBalesMusic]

Belz Mein Schtele Belz - it's a Jewish rhumba.

[@h.jeffreyschwartz4842]

Utterly brilliant. Larry David should rip this off!

[@matc2679]

You guys are cool. How many episodes are there per season?

[@yidlifecrisis]

Check out our playlists - 4 eps in season 1, 5 in season 2, plus our whole Global Shtetl travelog series. PS - you're cool too.

[@garden43100]

The German-sounding Yiddish that we hear on these video clips is the Yiddish taught in schools and universities in North America. It is also heard in the theatre when Yiddish plays are staged. It is a hybrid Yiddish invented on the campuses of American Universities after WW2 by scholars intent on preserving the language. No Jew ever heard Yiddish spoken that way in the old country and some don't understand it when they hear it spoken today. As a matter of fact, older Jewish immigrants who came to North America in the early part of the 20th century, can't understand this German-sounding Yiddish either. It is based upon Russian- Lithuanian Yiddish which was considered the language of the Jewish intelligentsia, mainly because it sounded so intelligent :-) .Even though there were countless respected scholars whose mother tongue was Galicianer Yiddish, their pronunciation was - and still is - considered by some to be the Jewish equivalent to Cockney English

[@bambooseragardenista8329]

Yiddish, like any other language, is malleable and morphing. It changes like water to fit the vessel it's poured into. The average Ashkenazic Jews of the shtetls spoke Yiddish to communicate with each other in a way that the indigenous people of their host countries could not fathom. It became the inside language of the outsiders, the lingua franca of the ghetto. Transplanted to the New World, for Yiddish to survive and thrive it must adapt to today's Jewish milieu, which is no longer a ghetto but still contains numerous situations where the richness of Yiddish's ironic nuance is still useful.

[@joseftrumpeldor6240]

+Bamboosera Gardenista Actually, BG, you're not even close to the truth. Yiddish was specifically spoken by ultra-super-duper orthodox Jews in Eastern Europe as a way of reserving Hebrew for prayer, thus making it special and not the mundane everyday language that it is in modern, reborn Israel.

[@makijotaz377]

oi vey , este capítulo siempre me saca una sonrisa y ... ganas de buen humus._

[@garden43100]

Smoked meat is not an indigenous French Canadian food as is suggested by the script of Episode 4. It is Romanian. It was introduced to Montreal by Jewish-Romanian immigrants and restauranteurs, as was karnatzel and rib steak. Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe discovered these delicacies after their arrival in North America. The Quebecois, who - as you already know - embrace all ethnic food, discovered smoked meat in the Jewish-owned restaurants of Montreal and made it their own.

[@yidlifecrisis]

We couldn't have put it better ourselves - hit us up with some links so that we can help write this up and direct our audience to some of these sources one day in the not-too-distant future.

[@garden43100]

YidLife Crisis www.erudit.org/revue/cuizine/2009/v1/n2/037859ar.html This link tells the entire story about smoked meat. Notice the prevalence of Romania as country of origin for the more prominent delicatessen men in Montreal. It is widely held - but conventional wisdom none the less - that the most flavorful Jewish food including baked goods are Romanian in origin. Similarly, Jewish - Romanian music is sublime.

[@paxxop]

oy, mazel tov! you guys are geniuses, your yiddishe mommes should be kvelling! such a shande, I grew up in a home that didn't speak Yiddish :( But (and would I be Jewish if there wasn't a "but"...?) can I have a reference or two for the line about bagels not being Jewish?

[@yidlifecrisis]

Considering our "yiddishe mommes" have disowned us since watching our show, we'll enjoy that fact that YOU are kvelling. Speaking of 'shandes'... here's some history on bagels: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel

[@Research0digo]

Please may we enjoy your videos in a l o n g e r length? (sorry Leizer) lol 6 minutes isn't enough. Your Lactaid sponsors (?) should be happy to foot the bill! Thank you very much!

[@Research0digo]

Falafel... I LOVE falafel! - When I don't burn it. :(

[@Finnur88]

1:05 Shouldn't אפּיקוירעס be translated as "heretic" rather than "antisemite"?

[@hank1519]

I believe that you are right! I think it literally means "idol worshipper."

[@yidlifecrisis]

Define "shouldn't"

[@hank1519]

@@yidlifecrisis I am going to use your "define" gambit in my conversations! Brilliant!

[@andreamuraskin5364]

I thought it was translated as "traitor" in the subtitles. But my dad always said it meant "heritic."

[@sarahlotz1497]

Bagels originate with Jewish communities in Poland, where did this idea that its not jewish come from?

[@beng2729]

Your accents are not old school Yiddish shtaytal Yiddish .more german middle class pre WW11but very funny dudes very funny

[@yidlifecrisis]

While we are deeply offended that you are suggesting we might have some sort of class, we are flattered by your watching. A dank!

[@PreacherAtArrakeen]

YidLife Crisis Ihr seid blöd! I am an ex-Montrealer (used to live on Fairmount) living in Germany. It amazes me how close to German your Yiddish sounds. I don't even need the subtitles, hahahahaha! You guys make me miss that neighbourhood, with the Orthodoxes going to Schule Friday evenings. Some of their hats were amazing, not least if they managed to stay free of fleas, lol.

[@mcfrdmn]

Tov Me'od !

[@joseftrumpeldor6240]

Which bozo (Jewish or otherwise) translates "good shabbes" as "good evening"????

[@meekerblvd]

+Josef Trumpeldor one of them clearly says good shabbas, while the guy answered back "giten uvent" which is good evening.

[@UshnishSengupta]

+Josef Trumpeldor I don't speak Yiddish, but I heard one of them said Guten Abend which Good Evening in German.

[@oonaeisenstadt]

je me souvlaki. lol

[@beng2729]

Nisht du far vous

[@danwatkins3044]

i like your show but its never going to take off if its going to be in yiddish

[@MuzikJunky]

The Greeks stole civilization from the ancient Egyptians (Kemetans), who were Black Africans, as Cheikh Anta Diop proved. Peace.

[@yidlifecrisis]

This further serves to prove the overall thesis - we're all kinda bastards, no?

[@mohitoness]

by saying 'they were black africans' it kind of has that 'that traces it back all the way to the beginning' sound, although in fact it isn't that way at all, and the whole idea of "civilization" has emerged independently several times across the globe in the last 40,000 years which is the span of time in which homo sapiens as we know them today--phenotypically identical fully recognizable humans who could learn english--have existed, possibly 50k or even earlier no one knows but for sure at least 40k. in this way the three to six thousand years of western proto/civilization are a speck of human history, something that our west centric view, jew or gentile, continues to overlook.

[@MuzikJunky]

mohitoness The word you’re looking for is “Eurocentric.” Peace.

[@tFighterPilot]

The ancient Egyptians were NOT black! This is some bullshit invented by Afro-Americans to make them feel important.

[@MuzikJunky]

+tFighterPilot No, Cheikh Anta Diop was Senegalese and earned five PhDs, the first of which proved that the ancient Egyptians were Black Africans. Peace.

[@Oxeeking]

contrived schmaltz, you actually think this is funny

[@davidthaler7018]

Lighten up farbisseneh!!!!

[@garden43100]

The reference to circumcision as a sanitary necessity ignores the fact that it is also a form of genital mutilation intended to moderate the male libido.. Some pundits consider it conventional wisdom that uncut men have more fun.

[@yidlifecrisis]

Good point. While we didn't address this, this additional point you bring up is rife with comedic/tragic material. We're putting it in the "to cover" list for season 2 (pun slightly intended).

[@paxxop]

There's also the possibility that it was borrowed from the Egyptians. They cut their priests. We took upon ourselves the notion of being a 'nation of priests'. So again with the cultures 'rubbing off one each other' as you so nicely put it.

[@Micksteroony]

Yeah, 'cos Yidden are known for the moderation of their libido eh?