and eventually when i went to jerusalem for cantor oriole school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshops at his place called [ speaking in a non-english language ] the combination of library, yiddish books he collected like the national yiddish book center and cultural programming. he asked me to do a monthly workshop on songs. i would go to the library to the archives every month and do a search for yiddish songs on a different theme. and do some of those songs that i found, my favorite ones that i found, as part of the workshop in the club. eventually it became a yiddish piano bar where i hang out at the piano with my book and it kept growing. at this point i think i have 400 yiddish songs. and play and sing . there is candlelight and people drinking vodka and eating herring and dark bread and , so. >> some people may know and some a not know that yiddish is a combination of german and hebrew. written originally in hebrew characters but also in german and comes out of the jewish experience in eastern europe . and was really a language that people spoke day today. people would have yidd