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  • Der idisher kemfer, New York, March 13, 1936: 13 – 14; Di velt vil mir zoln zayn Yidn (The World Wants Us To Be Jews).

    Rokhl Faygnberg (Imri). 2009

  • Some of these articles were published in Hebrew in the journal Ha-Olam; “Der yidisher shrayber tsu zayn leyener” (The Yiddish Writer to His Reader).

    Rokhl Faygnberg (Imri). 2009

  • Vegn Mordkhe Schechter un zayn verk (Mordkhe Schaechter and his Work).

    Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Leye 2009

  • As my yiddisher mama used to say “Fransn zol esn zayn layb.”

    "Did Ezra Klein post anti-Semitic comments to set up Ann Althouse?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • For example, "Hebrew-Aramaic words for bathroom functions in Jewish languages are typically quite euphemistic. mashtin zayn 'urinate', nekovim gedoylim and nekovim ketanim 'big holes and 'little holes', geyn af gedoylim and geyn af ketanim "to defecate' and 'to urinate' are indirect and learned ways to avoid saying kakn or shaysn and pishn."

    Another Scottish show that's hard to understand mj 2009

  • For example, "Hebrew-Aramaic words for bathroom functions in Jewish languages are typically quite euphemistic. mashtin zayn 'urinate', nekovim gedoylim and nekovim ketanim 'big holes and 'little holes', geyn af gedoylim and geyn af ketanim "to defecate' and 'to urinate' are indirect and learned ways to avoid saying kakn or shaysn and pishn."

    Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms mj 2009

  • a daytsh hot in treblinke zi farbrent. un ikh bin in der yidishe medine der same letster, vos hot zi gekent. far ir shrayb ikh oyf yidish mayne lider in teg di shreklekhe fun undzer tsayt. bay got aleyn iz zi a bas-yekhide - in himl zitst zi bay zayn rekhter zayt.

    Dutchblog Israel 2010

  • a daytsh hot in treblinke zi farbrent. un ikh bin in der yidishe medine der same letster, vos hot zi gekent. far ir shrayb ikh oyf yidish mayne lider in teg di shreklekhe fun undzer tsayt. bay got aleyn iz zi a bas-yekhide - in himl zitst zi bay zayn rekhter zayt.

    Dutchblog Israel 2010

  • -- ST.] [FN#279] In text "yá zayn" = Oh, the beautiful beast!

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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