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The article profiles U.S. actor Avi Hoffman, who was playing the character Willy Loman in the New York City New Yiddish Rep's Yiddish-language production of the play "Death of a Salesman" by playwright Arthur Miller through November 22, 2015. It discusses Hoffman's stage career, his co-star Suzanne Toren, and Miller's Jewish identification.

The author discusses reasons for common characteristics of rabbis' voices and their speaking. Topics include the tendency for students to learn to add intonation with vocal emphasis to the Torah and Talmud as neither is punctuated, the influence of Yiddish and cadence from the dialect of shtetl and the Pale of Settlement on the speech of rabbis, and the tendency for rabbis to imitate other or former rabbis

The article focuses on the availability of a program or class which organized by the Workmen's Circle, wherin the program help train the dogs for Yiddish commands.

The article reports on the June 2014 decision of a U.S. federal judge to declare a mistrial in the trial against New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith for bribery and wire fraud. Topics discussed include the translating and transcribing of recordings that were in the Yiddish language and the co-defendants in the case Vincent Tabone and Daniel J. Halloran III.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Are Good Doctors Bad for Your Health?," in the November 22, 2015 issue, "Tales of the Super Survivors," by David Brooks in the November 24, 2015 issue, and "Hearing Yiddish in the Language of Salesman," in the November 11, 2015 issue.

This article presents information about the life of Yiddish scholar, Itche Goldberg, who is 102 years old and lives in New York City. For many years, Goldberg produced a premier Yiddish literary journal called "Yiddish Kultur." Although his health prevents him from going to his office, Goldberg continues to believe that support for his journal will come from somewhere. He has tried to keep Yiddish culture alive after the Nazis tried to wipe it out in World War II.

Every few months news seems to arrive of another nail in the coffin of Yiddish -- the death of another poet or actress, the shuttering of another socialist or anarchist office, the failure of a century-old literary magazine to publish for yet another year. Now the latest woeful news is that the only secular Yiddish bookstore in New York is losing its home on East 21st Street, the one spot where among the huddled, dusty shelves you could schmooze about Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer with a salesman who spoke the language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1897, Isaac Fromme, an office-seeker from the largely Jewish Lower East Side, punctuated his campaign palaver with Yiddishisms to refute insinuations that he was Irish. In 1922, Fiorello H. La Guardia was re-elected to Congress from East Harlem after he rebutted charges of anti-Semitism by challenging a rival to debate in Yiddish. La Guardia, a son of Jewish and Italian parents, was fluent in Yiddish. His Jewish rival was not. That Yiddish remains the second language of New York politics was demonstrated yet again over the weekend in the disembodied debate between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the State Senate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than 10,000 works in Yiddish are now accessible online as part of a joint project between the National Yiddish Book Center, based in Amherst, Mass., and the Internet Archive in San Francisco, the two institutions announced on Friday. The scanning began more than 10 years ago as part of a $5 million effort to create the Steven Spielberg Digital Library, said Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the book center. The books will be available for downloading in a variety of formats at archive.org/details/nationalyiddishbookcenter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON a recent rainy Saturday, several dripping guests stopped to exchange Yiddish greetings of ''gut shabbos'' and to shrug off their drenched coats in the crowded doorway of Menachem Yankl Ejdelman's apartment on West End Avenue near 101st Street. Inside, Yakov Blum and his wife, Leah, offered a mazel tov to Leizer Burko, a 30-year-old graduate student who had celebrated his adult bar mitzvah that morning, while Benjamin Muller, a 25-year-old legal assistant, complained about his own cramped living quarters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Interviews Itsy Firestone, an Orthodox Jewish theater actor in New York City. Appearance in the play "Di Next-Door'ike"; Information on religious background; Expertise in speaking Yiddish language.

Reports on the publication on an advertisement in New York City-based "Forward" newspaper in Yiddish language. Legality of the advertisements; Effectiveness in attracting a national audience.

Reports on the evidence that Yiddish, the language of European Jews, has become mainstream in the United States. Why some words have come to assume sexual meaning; Rabbi Moshe Waldoks' admiration for Yiddish.

Reports on the `Yiddishkayt Los Angeles,' a festival devoted to the Yiddish language, to be held on May 14-21, 2000 at several museums, theaters and synagogues in California. Sponsors; Profile of Aaron Paley, an arts festival organizer; Remarks from artists about the Yiddish language.

Focuses on Yiddish-vokh, or Yiddish week, an annual retreat organized by Yugntruf, a group dedicated to preserving the language. Number of people worldwide that use the Yiddish language; Belief of Joshua Fishman, a sociolinguist, about the rise of secular interest in Yiddish.

Discusses the scholarly debate regarding the roots of the Yiddish language, and the connection to the Jewish migrations in Europe. The touchy issue of Yiddish's relationship to German, because of the Holocaust; Efforts to turn the field into science, despite the emotion; Three theories of migration, including west-to-east and east-to-west migrations; The book `The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry.'