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[muckefuck]

While searching for Yiddish song lyrics, I came across this site hawking poetry from "the well-known Yiddish cultural activist and poet GITL SCHAECHTER-VISWANATH." Fame is all relative. In this case, much more so than others...

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[aadroma.livejournal.com]

... erm, I know _I_'ve never heard of him, and you think of anyone on your friends list who WOULD ... O_o

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

Well, I might have, but I hadn't.. Also, I was under the impression that Gitl was a woman's name (and, in fact, my grandmother's middle name). Following the links suggests that the author is a woman.

(I'm not an expert on Yiddish onomastics, though, even if I suspect "Viswanath" is a South Asian borrowing.)

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

She and her three kids speak Yiddish, and I assume she has either a South Asian husband. And without the Interweb, we never would have known.

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

Are you familiar with Der Yiddishe Pinafore or its companion piece Der Yiddishe Mikado? They were translated and first performed by the Long Island G&S Society for concert performances in Jewish senior centers and nursing homes in the area.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Thanks to April Winchell, I've heard the patter song from Pinafore. Can't say it knocked my skarpets off, but perhaps the Major was speaking slowly for the benefit of the halbtoibe bobes un zeydes.

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

To some extent, yes, he was. But he was also thinking of himself.

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

What is this thing called Amway?

Oh oh oh!