Yiddish and Yiddish Accents

[MadImmortalMan]

To this day, I've never heard one in person in my life. That I know of.

[Ideologue]

To this day, I've never heard one in person in my life. That I know of.

You're not deaf and never mentioned it, are you?

[Siege]

Yiddish accents are not cool. To my subcouncious they mean either Evil-lazy-haredim-not-serving-in-the-military or evil-Russian-mafia-that-brought-hard-drugs-to-Israel.

[Siege]

Well, now that I think about it, Yiddish accent also means holocaust to my subcouncius mind. Also means black-and-white documentaries, etc.

[Queequeg]

But when he was dying from lung cancer, in his delirium, he somehow reverted back to only speaking Yiddish to everyone gathered by his death-bed for his last few days alive.  Which I think really spooked them, least of all because he was virtually unintelligible to them.  Even spooked my grandmother a bit, since he never used Yiddish with her, and since she came from a better-off family than his, of furniture-makers in Worcester Mass., not growing up around very much Yiddish.

This is exactly the kind of stuff I was interested in, thanks for sharing CM.

[Queequeg]

Yiddish accents are not cool. To my subcouncious they mean either Evil-lazy-haredim-not-serving-in-the-military or evil-Russian-mafia-that-brought-hard-drugs-to-Israel.

Yiddish speakers were foundation of Israel, and Yiddish was a cultured language for hundreds of years when Hebrew was just hyper-esoteric Latin.

[Queequeg]

Actually, that's not accurate.  Besides the Holy Scripture and the Talmud there's hardly any literature in Hebrew before 1947, and the modern variety takes crib notes from Punic and Arabic.

[Savonarola]

Actually, that's not accurate.  Besides the Holy Scripture and the Talmud there's hardly any literature in Hebrew before 1947, and the modern variety takes crib notes from Punic and Arabic.

There were some Hebrew poets in Medieval Spain, most notably Judah Ha-Levi.

[HVC]

Actually, that's not accurate.  Besides the Holy Scripture and the Talmud there's hardly any literature in Hebrew before 1947, and the modern variety takes crib notes from Punic and Arabic.

There were some Hebrew poets in Medieval Spain, most notably Judah Ha-Levi.

Comedian?

[Admiral Yi]