Yiddish Humor and Shmonzes

[avikau]

thanks........well done !!

[DrGull1888]

@avikau Thank you, for your compliments and have a nice Hanukkah.

[Kimsropia]

HA HA HA HA SO FUNNY.

[IsaacAbramowski]

Very very nice! thank you.

[DrGull1888]

@IsaacAbramowski De rien.

[blanikov7722]

name of the song, PLEASE :DDDDDDD

[DrGull1888]

@blanikov7722 It's called "Yiddle mit de Fiddle" by British Klezmer band "The Burning Bush"

[blanikov7722]

@DrGull1888 thx :DDD

[benyahuda]

Very nice. I'm a total sucker for Yiddish humor, and films.

[DrGull1888]

@benyahuda Thanks a lot. I presume Yiddish humor comes from the processing and bearing of those strokes of faith which aren't small in Jewish history.

[gunananda]

tscheast howi ma denkt "wia kau ma nea so undaitlich rejn" ... owa na ,

s'iz yiddish

[robertallenmills]

thank you for loading this. yiddish humor is not only the best, but it is the wisest humor of sages and fools, and fools are sages and sages are fools, because the paradoxes that they propose simultaneously, totally confuse the people, nonetheless, this is the timeless wisdom of the ages..

[DrGull1888]

@robertallenmills Amen to your comment! Amen!

[yak2718]

A Jew crying out to God (in Yiddish) would likely say, "Roboyne shel oylem". This could be translated (literally but poorly) as "Master of the Universe". I believe that's how it's often done in English translations of Yiddish jokes. Other common terms are "gotenyu" and "tatenyu", "tate in himl", etc. All of these are untranslatable since English-speaking cultures do not allow for such a close and personal (chatty?) relationship with the Creator as is found in Yiddish (Jewish) culture.

[hermokrates]

...Dos leben iz a shpaz!

[DrGull1888]

@hermokrates Do host du rekht!

[DeutscherFilmer3]

The joke at 2:23 probably relates to a sad issue in the German Imperial Army of the 19. century and WWI: Jewish "officer-applicants"(sry for weird vocabulary) had to be elected officers, otherwise they could not become officers despite their merits or service length. Because sometimes most of the voters were racist, many Jews did not become officers.

[DrGull1888]

@DeutscherFilmer3 Yes probably. But it would also fit to other European armys of the late 19th century.

[StephaneGrappelli]

holy shit!!!

who is this violinist, i must know who this is!!!

[DrGull1888]

The song is performed by the British Klezmer band "The Burning Bush". This is as much as I know.

[hermokrates]

@StephaneGrappelli it is Roderick Skeaping from The Burning Bush, his sister Lucie, sings and plays the viola.

[mkmkm52]

A Jew would never use the word "Yahweh".

[DrGull1888]

Adonai?

[mkmkm52]

Much better!

[aragorn202]

That's no good either. You should say "Hashem".

[nunctecognovi]

It's a very nice collection

[DrGull1888]

Oh, there's much more. Thanks anyway.

[ikhveysnit]

Nice collection, do you have these in Yiddish, I'd love to learn them.

[DrGull1888]

No, I'm sorry. I have these jokes in German and had to translate them. I only know some Yiddish phrases mostly from the Simpsons and Woody Allan movies.

[ikhveysnit]

If you want to hear some jokes in Yiddish, I have a bunch on my account from the forverts. I haven't subtitiled them yet though.