There's a lovely short audio slideshow here at the BBC, with Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director of New York's last surviving professional Yiddish theatre, the Folksbiene, talking – and singing – about the influence of Yiddish on 20th Century American culture via luminaries such as Cab Calloway and George Gershwin.

(Via A&L Daily)

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    dearieme

    Culture schmulture.

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