Sections

Donate
Donate
JTA
EST 1917

Yiddish

Some parodies exist solely because it’s funny to mash up two disparate genres. Take, for instance, YouTube videos such as Ten Things I Hate about Commandments (Bible stories + high-school movies), and the Fiddler on the Roof/You Got Served trailer (1800s Jewish ghetto/2000s African-American ghetto). In a new Youtube video, the first scene of The Godfather is dubbed into Yiddish. (Watch it here–and don’t worry, there are English subtitles.) […]

Advertisement

“Ich bin un Mentsch mit chutzpah und gelt,” sings Daniel Kahn in a raspy, Tom Waits-like Yiddish in the song “Rakhmones afn Tayvl.” He might be the first to sing this sentence in that particular language. Translate the song into English, however, and many more people will recognize it–it’s the Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil.” (The original line, of course, […]

“In the beginning was the word,” says Bob Holman, a slam poet and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club–one of New York‘s premiere poetry venues. “God said it. But who was He speaking to? Christians? Muslims? Jews?” Holman poses this question on his new television series, On the Road. The show tours the world, recording different peoples and their poetry. In the […]

Load More
Advertisement