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survived the transmission intact and unopened 🔑 yiddishistke 🌟

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i almost forgot to share that i now have a column in der nister’s weekly shabbos newsletter 🦋 here’s what my first 3 were about

sign up at dernister [dot] org 🌷

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for the first time doubting if this is really the culture of my ancestors

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@PercyYaBysshe it works for some people! it uses the hasidic dialect which is a bit different than what i speak

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my dad, who learned yiddish over the course of a month or two on duolingo, has been translating my yiddish newsletter posts into english for my grandma to read :,)

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east coast swimming summer

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one night apparently i put a post-it note on my roommate’s cat that said “cause of causes” on it in hebrew

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i've gotten a lot of the things that i've wanted recently; nearly all of them...

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have you ever experienced a native yiddish speaker telling you over zoom in yiddish that it’s important to get married and why haven’t you matched up with any of the nice boys in your class yet?

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crazy how in order to translate something, you have to understand it, even when you are trying to translate one of the hardest things you have ever tried to understand...

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feeling pretty fluent in yiddish these days

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❤️

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ghérasim luca

[jewish art @AlbertBaram]

Maimon Moshe ,(1860-1924)
After the Pogrom -1917

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if i was frum i wouldn’t know the pleasure of listening to hasidic electronic music on the subway on shabes

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greatest city in da world!

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brooklyn feels like the perfect home for me, especially now that the place where i’m from (san francisco) is unrecognizable. i speak yiddish and i even have a fondness for rats

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in the future jews will live in shtetls again after civil war and resource scarcity compel us all to form small confederated communes

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after this summer i will reach peace with my level of yiddish devote the next 5 years to downloading all the romance languages into my brain

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in case it wasn’t clear i chose both

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there are two life defining intellectual journeys someone like me could take in their early 20s… one leads to polyamory, and the other to hasidus

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@rommennoodle truly truly living the dream out there