So tomorrow Secrets of the City is sponsoring a talk with author Neal Karlen and comedian (and German scholar) Ari Hoptman on the subject of Yiddish, about which Karlen has written a book. This has got me thinking about Yiddish in Minnesota, so I decided to do a little digging. There isn’t a lot, but what’s out there is interesting. Garrison Keillor once joked about a Yiddish-Minnesotan dictionary. KFAI, unsuprisingly, can be counted on to occasionally play Yiddish music. According to this book, there was a brief, but failed, attempt at publishing a Yiddish weekly in 1921. Local girls made good The Andrew Sisters had some luck with Yiddish novelty numbers, and also helped create Yiddish swing. The locally originated show Gershwin the Klezmer investigated Geirge Gershwin’s roots in Yiddish music. And, of course, St. Louis Park’s own Coen Brothers will be filming The Yiddish Policeman’s Union as their next movie.
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