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Hollywood actor to be honored for promoting Yiddish
Arutz Sheva ^ | 30/11/19 | Cnaan Liphshiz

Posted on 11/30/2019 4:05:08 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Seth Rogen, a Jewish-American Hollywood actor and filmmaker who is studying Yiddish for a role, will be honored by a group devoted to promoting that language.

The Workmen’s Circle, a group whose mission is to strengthen Jewish identity based on social justice and Yiddish language, will honor Rogen, 37, in a ceremony Monday in Manhattan, the New Jersey Jewish News reported Wednesday.

“It’s something that’s always been just a very big part of my life,” the actor said of his Jewish identity in an interview with NJJN. “The first jokes I ever wrote were about it; it was a very inherent part of who I was.”

Rogen is studying Yiddish for his role in “American Pickle,” a film based on a short story by Simon Rich, in which the main character, Herschel Greenbaum, a Yiddish-speaker who immigrated in 1918 to the United States, emerges fully preserved from a pickle barrel a century later, to meet his great-grandson in Brooklyn.

Rogen, 37, and his father, Mark, who worked for the organization in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, will receive the Generation to Generation Activism award during the ceremony.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: americanpickle; sethrogen; simonrich; yiddish
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To: Eleutheria5

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21 posted on 11/30/2019 5:40:26 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Eleutheria5
Of his dual citizenship, Rogen has stated "I definitely associate with being Canadian much more than being American" because he grew up in Canada. He has described his parents, who met on kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel, as "radical Jewish socialists."
22 posted on 11/30/2019 5:41:23 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Eleutheria5
That's a GREAT movie!

And then there's also THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER FOX, where Goldie Hawn and George Segal speak Yiddish to each other.

23 posted on 11/30/2019 5:43:52 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

In “Blazing Saddles,” Mel Brooks plays an Indian chief who speaks Yiddish.


24 posted on 11/30/2019 5:45:04 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius
Yes, but just a little. The other movies I mentioned use it a lot more. Just some is also in CROSSING DELANCEY.

And there were several early talkies where Yiddish is also spoken.

25 posted on 11/30/2019 5:47:58 PM PST by nopardons
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To: simpson96

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26 posted on 11/30/2019 5:50:57 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: Eleutheria5

Rogen is a world class schmuck.


27 posted on 11/30/2019 6:17:16 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: nopardons

I’ve learned to really like the movie version that runs on TCM.

The “tradition” song especially.


28 posted on 11/30/2019 7:13:38 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Leftards are morons.


29 posted on 11/30/2019 7:17:03 PM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: wally_bert
Many long years ago, long before there was a PBS, Channel 13, in NYC, had a show that did famous plays with great Broadway actors and actresses in them.

I'd never read anything by Sholem Aleichem, let alone even heard of him, so I watched with a completely unbiased mind.

The play was taken from his Tevye stories, which is what Fiddler, the Broadway musical was taken from.

I HATED IT!

That being said, I have tried to watch the movie, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF on TCM and I just can't warm to it; not the play nor the music. Part of the reason re the latter, is because some of the songs from that show were played to death, when it was playing on Broadway.

30 posted on 11/30/2019 7:30:00 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Eleutheria5

I had no interest in watching his role in any of his characters. Acting was never natural & way over rated for any of his acting.


31 posted on 11/30/2019 7:30:24 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: Publius

A few words in “Men in Tights” too


32 posted on 11/30/2019 7:37:03 PM PST by oldsicilian
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To: Eleutheria5

Here’s the url for the start of my Yiddish course...

A friend of the family took a security job in the middle east. For a vacation, Israel was recommended.
He stayed at a B&B and had a great time!

Telling everyone of the good time he had, his supervisor told him the company had a position open in Israel but a requirement was to be conversational in Hebrew. (Not Yiddish)

He emailed his new Israeli friends and they sent some texts and they would Skype... Some months later he passed the test and relocated! (he is very smart)

After some time, he asked his mother to come to visit (his father had passed.)

His mother said she did not want to be ‘blown up’!
So she came for a quick three-day visit, she enjoyed it.
And returned every month or two.

He has now returned to stateside after five? six? years.


33 posted on 11/30/2019 7:41:24 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Eleutheria5

Films and TV during the 1950’s had lots of vaudeville actors who used a lot of Yiddish words. As a pitcher-eared child I picked up number of Yiddish words and phrases.


34 posted on 11/30/2019 7:59:36 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Eleutheria5

Isn’t Yiddish basically the Hebrew Ebonics?


35 posted on 11/30/2019 8:56:44 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W

Absolutely not; it is a combination of mostly German ( though sometimes pronounce slightly differently ) some other European languages words, and I think that’s it.

And not all Hewish people ever spoke or even understood Yiddish. The Sephardim have their own special language.

But most all Hews ever spoke/understood either of these languages.

OTOH... many Yiddish words are now part of American English.


36 posted on 11/30/2019 10:52:27 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dfwgator

#18. More Yiddish words to describe Rogen. Putz, Schmeckle, Smeggegie, loser.


37 posted on 11/30/2019 11:16:02 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: Don W

Or the German Judbonics.


38 posted on 11/30/2019 11:26:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: nopardons

It has a lot of Hebrew in there, too. As does the Sephardic Ladino, the hybrid Aramaic in which the Talmud is written, and Jewish Arabic. There are about 35 different Jewish languages, all of which have as a common denominator the incorporation of a Hebrew vocabulary in daily speech, along with a slightly altered common language. Yiddish is merely the most widely spoken and enduring of them all.

Ladino suffered a terrible blow with Hitler’s destruction of the large Jewish community in Salonica but is still in daily use on Gibralter. It also has a major literary work, the Me’am Lo’ez compendium of midrashic stories and interpretation, which is still available in Ladino, but has been translated into Hebrew.


39 posted on 11/30/2019 11:33:57 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Didn’t Ziva of NCIS have to learn to speak Yiddish, if I recall correctly and very fast for her NCIS role?


40 posted on 11/30/2019 11:37:54 PM PST by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 /2010 - See you on the other side!)
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