The laughter will never stop with this onceinalifetime collection of the sidesplitting familyfriendly humor from the brilliant humorist, arnold fine. Yiddish is spoken as a daily language in some parts of america, mostly in new york city, and in some parts of europe, particularly eastern europe, and south america, as well as in israel. Thicker than some of the other books in this series, dirty yiddish goes out of its way to teach what might be considered polite yiddish. The song was a hit, and the next year, calloway was back in the studio cutting abi gezunt if youve got your health, you can be happy, a song by fellow jivetalk philologist henry nemo, with a lyric that blended yiddish and jivetalk jargon.
Over 340 of arnies classic jewish jokes, one liners, and humorous observations will leave you and everyone else rolling on the f. The laughter will never stop with this onceinalifetime collection of sidesplitting familyfriendly humor, from the brilliant humorist arnold fine of the jewish press. Am yisrael chai carlebach am yisrael chai rockoff araber tants. It is slightly higher than standard german, with a large admixture of words of hebrew, slavic, or other origin. Shulem lemmer has been reviving and revitalizing ageold yiddish classics. The laughter will never stop with this once in a lifetime collection of the side splitting family friendly humor, from the brilliant humorist arnold fine of the jewish press. A bisl zun, a bisl regn, a ruik ort dem kop tzu legn, abi gezunt, ken men glik lekh zayn.
Definitions as long as youre healthy you can be happy. The laughter will never stop with this onceinalifetime collection of the sidesplitting familyfriendly. It should come as no surprise that the phrase abi gezunt is so popular. Yiddish book centers wexler oral history project interview with velvel pasternak. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Im chu the flu im heard the jerk im falop the hop im diz the wiz now you guys can be who you wanna be im the cat thats in the know im hink the. Velvel pasternak was interviewed by hankus netsky on august 15, 2011 at his home in new york. An english sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in yinglish or hebronics. English transliteration of yiddish lyrics from the milken archivenaxos american classics cd great songs of the yiddish stage, volume 1 8. The jewish radio hour winnipeg, winnipeg, manitoba. Piano accompaniment by various arrangers this is the first issue of a broadbased and definitive collection of popular jewish and classic yiddish theater songs with piano accompaniment.
Made in poland, as were a number of americanproduced yiddish films during the 1930s this one less than a year before the german invasion, it starred the inimitable molly picon 1898. This book consists of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioral patterns of east european immigrant jews known to promote health and prevent. Enjoy hundreds of alltimefavorite jokes straight from the archives of the jewish press. Abi gezunt 1938 molly picon, in the midst of shabbes shabbos preparations, sings abi gezunt so long as youre healthy in the prewar yiddish film, mamele 1938.
There are some yiddish words used in english language context. In 1930s new york, no cat was more of a hepster than cab calloway. Many of the great jewish composers abraham goldfaden, mark warshawsky, joseph rumshinsky, alexan. You know more yiddish than you think jewish currents. It played on an expression made famous in an earlier song by yiddish theatre doyen molly. Molly picon from the film mamele a bit of sun, a bit of rain, a peaceful place to lay your head so long as youre healthy, you can be happy. Lyrics for abi gezunt by the barry sisters a bisl zun, a bisl regn, a ruig ort dem kop tzu legn, abi gezunt ken men gliklakh zayn. This book consists of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioral patterns of east european immigrant jews known to promote health and prevent disease beginning in the late 19th and into the 20th centuries. And signs off, rather perplexingly, with, abi gezunt. The yiddish word abi gezunt is defined as as long as youre healthy. A shukh a zok a kleyd on lates, in keshene a drei fir zlotes, abi gezunt.
The decade of discovery is a new initiative of the yiddish book center designed to foster a deeper understanding of yiddish and modern jewish culture. Over 340 of arnies classic jewish jokes, oneliners, and humorous observations will leave youand everyone elserolling on the floor. Arnies classic jewish jokes, oneliners, and humorous observations will leave you and everyone else rolling on the floor. What concerns abi or rather aby its an ukrainizm or rusizm meaning, in this case, both a wish of good health and a melancholic truism, something like all is well if your health is well. Zeke levine takes the shmooze into the yiddish book centers vault to explore the centers yiddish sheet music collection. Mayn yiddishe velt by heather lauren klein yiddish book. The biggest and silliest collection of classic jewish jokes kindle edition by arnold fine, zalman. Made in poland, as were a number of americanproduced yiddish films during the 1930s this one less than a year before the german invasion, it starred the inimitable molly picon 18981992, probably second avenues. Includes over 340 classic jewish jokes, oneliners, and humorous observations that will leave you rolling on the floor. Zeke levine takes the shmooze into the yiddish book centers vault to. A shukh, a zok, a kleyd on lates, in keshene dray fir zlotes, abi gezunt, ken men gliklekh zayn. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The funniest jewish joke book ever the laughter will never stop with this onceina. View of the entrance to the 2nd avenue theatre where the marquee advertises, in both english and yiddish, abi gezunt you should only be well.
A century of yiddish in america, by sol steinmetz tuscaloosa, 1986. Yidl mitn fidl part 2 yiddle with his fiddle 1936 yiddish film duration. Yiddish words and expressions widely used in american culture. A bisl freyd, a bisl lakhn, a mol mit fraynt a shnepsl makhn, abi. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The biggest and silliest collection of classic jewish jokes kindle edition by fine, arnold, goldstein, zalman. Drawing on data pointing to health as an economic commodity, leading to. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Maxwell streets second recording includes yiddish favorites such as abi gezunt.
Cab calloway abi gezunt a bee gezindt lyrics genius. Hebrew songs transliterated and translated into english as well as spanish, italian, portuguese and other languages, by volunteers worldwide. In this video he performs a beautiful rendition of abi gezunt as long as your. Beginning with the centers 40th anniversary in 2020, and continuing for each of the next ten years, the center will select an annual theme. You wont get verb conjugations, and its hard to draw the line between slang and nonslang, because there is no real standardization of the language, for one, and for another, yiddish is so goshdurned earthy. See all 3 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Abi gezunt shulem lemmer with the yochi briskman klezmer band zilber shtern paula teitelbaum. Abi gezunt by jacob jay lindenthal overdrive rakuten. Yiddish slang and idioms international yiddish center. Now the joseph jacobs organization has been, as the booklet indicates, a public relations and marketing counsel to manufacturers and advertising agencies since 1919. Includes an high quality pdf file to download instantly.
Bay a glezele mashke klezmer band folio, yale klezmer band. New york sounds of yiddish theater brings toe tapping, tear jerking poetry back to life in an exciting mix of lesser known yiddish operetta, folk, and theater favorites. Rozovsky 194320 was a lawyer, author, educator, health. You can purchase our albums andor our book from paypal with the links. Abi gezunt for voice and other instruments fake book, intermediate voice sheet music. A shukh, a zok, a kleyd on lates, in keshene a dray, fir zlotes, abi gezunt, ken men glik lekh zayn.
Velvel pasternak, musicologist and major publisher of jewish music, talks about jewish music. Developed out of hebrew and german, yiddish became. Zekes fellowship responsibilities include cataloguing the collection, and in the process of his work hes uncovered some interesting finds, including two of his favoritessheet music of abi gezunt, from the film mamele starring molly picon, and a piece from the. Di luft iz fray far yedn glaykh, di zun zi shaynt far yedn eynem orem oder raykh. For example, a secular english book but a holy hebrew sefer. Afh yenems tukhes is gut sepatchen someone elses ass is easy to smack. A bisl freyd, a bisl lakhn, amol mit fraynt a shnepzl makhn, abi gezunt.
Learn the definition of the yiddish word abi gezunt as well as the proper way to pronounce abi gezunt, from a real bubbe. Translated it means roughly, stay healthy, because you can kill yourself later. On the yiddish segment, rochelle zucker introduces you to eleonore biezunski, a singer, violinist and yiddish music researcher who was born in paris. The laughter will never stop with this onceinalifetime collection of the sidesplitting familyfriendly humor, from the brilliant humorist arnold fine of the jewish press. The biggest and silliest collection of sidesplitting classic jewish jokes. As yiddish is roughly 75% germanic in origin, german speakers can understand a large part of it. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading abi gezunt. Di luft iz fray, far yedn glaykh, di zun zi sheynt far yedn eynem orem oder raykh.
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