Oscar Homolka was born on August 12, 1898 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a sewing machine salesman and part-time cantor, Homolka was a vessel for his homemaker mother’s frustrated acting ambitions. Homolka began his career on the Viennese stage, but was soon working in the more prestigious the…

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I always knew my Oriental wife was Jewish; after all, she grew up eating Chinese food!

I grew up in a Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal. My mother is Sephardic Italian and my father is a Holocaust survivor from Poland. I speak Italian with my mother and Yiddish with my father and siblings. My wife…

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Using Yiddish curses effectively isn’t a matter of yelling out bad words; the trick is to put good ones together in the most damaging possible way. It’s a pastime, an invitation to a dialogue, a form of recreation that lets standard Yiddish thought and speech run wild.

Many curses involv…

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If you happen to be visiting London this Summer, be sure to go see a tremendous show at the Jewish Museum called ‘Ghetto Warriors. This show is about roots for many of Us. In 1911, when my Bubba Rachel fled the Calea Vacaresti in Bucharest after one too many attacks by anti-semiten, she walked to Ha…

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At the start of the 20th century, Yiddish was emerging as a major Eastern European language. Its rich literature was ever more widely published, Yiddish theater and Yiddish film were booming, and it had even achieved status as one of the official languages of the Belorussian SSR. Educational autonom…

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The Ashkenazi culture that was taking root in 10th-century Central Europe derived its name from Ashkenaz, the medieval Hebrew name for Germany (Genesis 10:3). Its geographic extent did not coincide with the German Christian principalities, and Ashkenaz included Northern France. It also bordered on t…

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Yiddish (Yid. , yidish, = n. & adj. “Jewish”) is a nonterritorial Germanic language spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. It originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in central and eastern Europe, and spread via emigration to othe…

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