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Uploaded by on May 16, 2007

During the Dnieper Klezmer Jewish Heritage tour of the Ukraine organized by josh "DJ Socalled" Dolgin and family, an elderly Yiddish speaker from Paris, Abe Bartel, led a virtuoso stream of yiddish joke telling. It is getting ever more rare to hear the original Yiddish joke tradition form a fluent speaker raised in Yiddish. Translations by Prof. Orenstein of McGill University Jewish Studies Dept.

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  • its make no sens to call the rebe in such misurble weather...

    i love it!

  • Reb Bartel- soltz leben bis hundert un zvantig! (Mr. Bartel - you should live to be 120!) Beautiful Yiddish jokes so well told!

    My beloved late great-aunt Ester, originally from Kalisz, Poland, was a great story-teller. I loved to listen to her incredible Yiddish jokes - she told them so well - until my sides hurt and I begged her to stop!

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  • We should start using the talmud for toilet paper.

  • It's also funny because the translator, my good friend Eugene, looks like he has heard these jokes thousands of times already.

  • he is better than good he is great

  • These guys are great, if you look at the young guy with the curly hair and glasses that is S0-Called a really great modern Jewish musical genius.

  • Git!

  • oy! reminds me of my cousin sammy!

  • OY! Reminds me of my beloved zedei. Thank you

  • Sara: "Do you want to call that anti-semi, Evanoff Petro?"

    David: "Yes. that's the one I want. Evanoff Petro."

    Sara: "Does that mean that you secretly converted to Christianity?"

    David: "No, but it makes no sense to call the Rabbi at such a miserably cold night."

  • In a small town in Poland or in the Ukraine, it was 30 below zero, there was a snowstorm, it was in the middle of the night, midnight, David called his wife:

    David: "Sara, I feel this is the end of my life, I am on my last minutes of my life. Do you want to call a pastor or a priest for me?"

    Sara: "You must mean a Rabbi."

    David: "No."

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