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eBook Description: "Yiddish" is the story of Bill and Jenny, both in their late sixties, who live at Sunset Village, a retirement community in Florida. Both join the "Yiddish Club", an organization in their community dedicated to keeping the ancient language of Yiddish alive. Bill and Jenny are married to other people who have little interest in the club, pursuing their own hobbies. In joining the club each is trying to recapture the warm moments and delicious nostalgia of their childhood when Yiddish was the language spoken in the home by their immigrant parents. Bill and Jenny become fast friends, communicating in the language that ties them together. The friendship blossoms into love and they begin to wrestle with the possibility of leaving their spouses and spending their remaining years together. The ending will surprise you. This one of a kind acclaimed and poignant story was one of three Warren Adler stories adapted for the Public Television Network where it garnered fabulous reviews. The miniseries starred Doris Robert, Harold Gould, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ron Rifkin and Uta Hagen among others.

eBook Publisher: Stonehouse Press, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2001

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Words: 9302
Reading time: 26-37 min.
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When it was first organized, the Sunset Village Yiddish Club met once a week. Members talked in Yiddish, read passages from the Yiddish papers to each other, and discussed, in Yiddish, the works of Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer that they had read during the week-in the original Yiddish, of course. The members enjoyed it so much that they would sometimes stay in the all-purpose room in the Sunset Village Clubhouse, where the meetings were held, for hours after they were over, talking in Yiddish as if that language were the only logical form of communication. Finally they had to increase the meetings of the Yiddish Club to three times a week, although most of the members would have preferred to attend every day.

There were a great many reasons for the phenomena, their club president would tell them. His name was Melvin Meyer, but in the tradition of the club, he was called Menasha, his name in Yiddish. He had a masterly command of the Yiddish language. Both his parents had been actors in the heyday of the Yiddish stage, when there were more than twenty Yiddish theaters on the Lower East Side of New York alone and they were showing at least three hundred productions a year.

"There is, of course, the element of nostalgia," Menasha would explain to the group pedantically, his rimless glasses imposing in their severity.