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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 Workmens 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.
Its something thats 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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: americanpickle; sethrogen; simonrich; yiddish
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Social justice? Bah, humbug!
You want to study Yiddish, there's a 15-lesson course on You Tube. You want to see Yiddish spoken in a film, I recommend Lauf Junge Lauf, a 2013 multilingual film with Yiddish spoken in the beginning end that is so perfect I could almost believe the actors are native speakers. Or Menashe, released in 2017, depicting life in Williamsburg among the Satmar Chassidim for an impoverished single father. The actual Hungarian dialect is spoken almost throughout.
Here's the url for the start of my Yiddish course, temporarily not making further advanced lessons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYT_cphi5U&t=2s
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:05:25 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:08:12 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: ClearCase_guy
Most Irish looking lantsman vos ich hob gezen in mein leiben.
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:14:36 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:16:15 PM PST
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
“tallest/most beautiful” somehow only means tallest. Leftard through and through. Not seeing his film, unless I can download it safely from Pirate Bay. He gets no money from me.
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:19:52 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:20:22 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(BLACK LIVES MAGA)
To: Jeff Chandler
Let's not forget Gene Wilder in Frisco Kid. He didn't need to do no studying. He grew up speaking it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAXGY_HFU0
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11/30/2019 4:24:08 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: simpson96
Yeah, that looks Yiddish to me. What a putz.
To: Eleutheria5
Seth Rogen, felcher... but it prolly doesn't translate too well
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:24:58 PM PST
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: Eleutheria5
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11/30/2019 4:25:20 PM PST
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Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: Jeff Chandler
LOL, the first thing that came to mind.
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11/30/2019 4:25:33 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ClearCase_guy
I think I heard some spoken on various Kojak episodes.
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posted on
11/30/2019 4:30:40 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
To: wally_bert
Wouldn’t surprise me. Kojak always had Greek, but it showcased a lot of different ethnicities.
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11/30/2019 5:05:44 PM PST
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Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: Chode
Yiddish can get along quite well without his two cents. Still many have it as a first language, and there are newspapers and theatrical and cinema productions, too. He can use his award to administer enemas. I picked it up spontaneously, living and working in NYC and Buffalo, and hearing it spoken.
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11/30/2019 5:09:18 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: simpson96
Rogen is worthless. Lowest common denominator movies.
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11/30/2019 5:21:24 PM PST
by
proust
(Justice delayed is injustice.)
To: Eleutheria5
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, in YIDDISH, has been running on off off Broadway and then, off Broadway, starring Joel Grey ( who can't speak Yiddish ) to great acclaim, for over a year now. And it's drawing big crowds; not all of whom speak or understand Yiddish.
This seems to be a rather silly award and to throw in the "social justice" garbage makes it even worse.
To: proust
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11/30/2019 5:36:01 PM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Eleutheria5
My first boss taught me some Yiddish. It amused him to have a skinny wasp kid speak it. He was a great guy and I miss him.
Of course he taught me many other things of great value.
To: ClearCase_guy
The movie “A STRANGER AMONG US” ( good movie BTW ), contains scenes with people speaking Yiddish, too.
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