Yiddish Fight Club?! and Joni Mitchell love fest today on Shtetl.
Tag Archives: Eddy Portnoy
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Eddy Portnoy, Joni Mitchell, Malca Marom, music, Yiddish, Yiddish Fight Club, YIVO
Eddy Portnoy shares tales of bizarre and tragic suicides in the Yiddish Press. Montrealer and atheist Tevya Heller talks about seeking the divine on TV, and Palestinian comedian Eman finds what’s funny about Jews and Muslims.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged comedy, Eddy Portnoy, Eman, Kosher Jokes for the Halaladays, Le Mood, Muslims, Palestinians, Suicide, Tevya Heller, The Yiddish Press
If, for instance, you need to hip check your rabbi or, if you feel an unquenchable desire to bitch-slap the cantor, there is a uniquely Jewish vocabulary of which you can avail yourself.
This week Shtetl on the Shortwave has “A hant untern kleydl” (A hand up the dress)! Tune in and find out about two bohemian Yiddish puppeteers, Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler, from New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s and ’30s.
Posted in history, performance art
Tagged Eddy Portnoy, Lower East SIde, puppets, Yosl Cutler, Zuni Maud