The controversial hip-hop group released its 13th album, “Man Plans, God Laughs.” Public Enemy, the Grammy-nominated hip-hop group, released its 13th studio album on Thursday. The title of the album, ...
1. Cuban proverb: When the sun rises, it rises for -----. 2. Arab proverb: Examine what is said, not who -----. 3. African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go -----. 4 ...
Maven, schmooze, schlock, kvetch, nosh: they're just a few of the Yiddish-origin words that have made their way into American dictionaries. Tracing the history of the Jewish lingua franca not only ...
"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground!" Or, as it goes in the original Yiddish: "Zolst vaksn vi a tzibele mitn kop in dr'erd!" That's just one of the colorful curses to be found in ...
In this installment of This, That or The Other, contestants must determine the origin of some unusual phrases. Is the quotation "death is an experience best shared" a an old Yiddish proverb, an old ...
For a supposedly dead or dying language, Yiddish is not going down without a fight. In fact, we’re in the midst of a rich and creative revival such that the language and its culture hasn’t seen in ...
When it comes to describing baffling human behavior, Yiddish excels, and perhaps the same is true for describing baffling government behavior. As Brexit descends into no-one-knows-what’s-happening ...
Public Enemy, the Grammy-nominated hip-hop group, released their 13th studio album on Thursday. The title of the album, “Man Plans, God Laughs,” is a translation of a well-known Yiddish proverb. It’s ...