Episode 16 - Mendy Cahan makes Yiddish Great Again

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Mendy Cahan joins Two Nice Jewish Boys to speak about his lifelong relationship with the Yiddish language, how he rediscovered its wonders and struggles to preserve its heritage. Join us for an unbelievably touching and thought-provoking account of a man who carries the torch for an almost forgotten language. Yung Yiddish's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/yung.yidish

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys, Aitzid Weinstein and Na'Or Minninger.
0:13.0	Nagilah Haqvah, Nogh, and Nismecha.
0:18.0	What's up?
0:20.0	Hello, Aiton. Hello, hello, Nai hao how are you oh i'm great what's up pretty good pretty good
0:27.9	yeah how was your week um you know no complaints no complaints yeah it's new right yeah i
0:36.1	i need to wrap my my head around it. Today, Aiton, I have no other way
0:45.3	to say it rather than we have Mendi Kahan with us. That's true. Which for me is amazing and it's a huge excitement because...
0:57.0	Because Mandy...
0:59.0	Hello.
1:00.0	Hi, Mendi.
1:01.0	Hello.
1:02.0	I'm blushing here, but go on.
1:06.0	It's okay. They can't see you, so it's all good.
1:09.0	To me, Mendi is maybe one of the most important figures in Tele...
1:15.6	Are you okay, Mandy? Can you handle it? Okay.
1:18.6	In Tel Aviv's cultural life.
1:20.6	I mean, not only because he always creates and initiates and contributes to Tel Aviv's cultures,
1:30.3	not only by organizing amazing events and concerts,
1:37.3	but also by building, I don't know how to call it,
1:43.3	but building something huge, something actual that changed the culture of the city to me.
1:51.7	That's how I see it.
1:52.6	I'm sorry if I'm being...
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