“Are Yentas, Kibitzers, & Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction? Yiddish Trivia.”

by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe

“Are Yentas, Kibitzers, & Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction? Yiddish Trivia.”

DID YOU KNOW THAT: Are Yentas, Kibitzers, & Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction? Yiddish Trivia

. There are more than 300 Yiddish and Hebrew words all officially acceptable in Scrabble?

. A 1997 Elderhostel course was titled, “Dress British, Think Yiddish”?

. Molly Picon taught Kate Smith and Carol Channing to sing in Yiddish?

. Billy Crystal (“700 Sundays”) said that “Yiddish is a combinaton of German and phlegm?

. In show business, a “shtick” is a special bit of acting? The great Flydini is a hysterial Steve Martin “shtick.”

NU, SHOYN? HURRY UP! READ THE BOOK IT’S ‘VUNDERLICH”—WONDERFUL.

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