Five colleges explore Yiddish culture

Any college student who has ordered a "bagel" in the dining hall, called a roommate who dropped an iPod a "klutz," or been baffled by a "mishmash" of class notes borrowed from a friend is using vocabulary on loan from Yiddish. That student also may have encountered Yiddish culture in the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer and others on the ... (Full article: 688 words)

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