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re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film

Posted by: AlanScott 03:53 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film - showtunetrivia 03:35 pm EST 11/24/14

My father's mother also spoke Yiddish. Perhaps at one time she could speak Russian, but Yiddish was her primary language. She never learned more than a small amount of English. She died in 1973. I don't know exactly when she came here. My father was born in 1925. His older sister was probably born in 1922. They were both born here so it was before that. But I know very little about their history. And now no one is around to ask.

I wonder what records might exist if I tried to find them.


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re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film

Posted by: showtunetrivia 04:42 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film - AlanScott 03:53 pm EST 11/24/14

Online genealogical searches are incredibly easy. The Mormons' FamilySearch.org is free, if somewhat clunky to use. Ancestry.com is the biggest; to get anything really interesting you have to join, but you can make family trees for free, and they have (or they used to have) a free trial. State resources are free, as are sone of the US censuses. Liberty-Elis Island Foundation has a free passenger search, too.

By way of keeping this on topic, I wonder how much the ban on Yiddish theatre (enacted after the czar's assassination in 1883) contributed to the decline of the language at the end of the century.

Laura


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re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film

Posted by: AlanScott 04:53 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film - showtunetrivia 04:42 pm EST 11/24/14

Thanks so much. I must do that.


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"Shtetl Days"

Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:32 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: re: Deadline reviews Into the Woods film - AlanScott 04:53 pm EST 11/24/14

Apologies if this is off topic, but it does deal with the discussion of language in Imperial Russia and does involve actors, albeit fictional ones.

Some Chatterati may know my husband, Harry Turtledove, writes science fiction, including a lot in the subgenre of alternate history. A few years ago, he wrote a short story set in a world where the Nazis won the war. Decades later, they're recreated a shtetl as a kind of "living museum," complete with performers playing the long-gone Jews, just like folks play Elizabethan Englishmen at Renaissance fairs today. But what happens when they start to get too deep in their roles?

Laura

Link "Shtetl Days" at tor.com

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Correct link

Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:39 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: "Shtetl Days" - showtunetrivia 08:32 pm EST 11/24/14

Sorry!

Link "Shtetl Days" at tor.com

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