and eventually when i went to jerusalem for cantor oriole school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshopse had a place called [ speaking in a global language ] , a library of yiddish books like the national judicial book center, kind of like it . and cultural programming. he asked me to do a workshop on the yiddish songs and i would go to the library, the archives every month and do a search for yiddish songs on a different theme and do some of the songs that i found. my favorite ones of the songs i found, as part of a workshop in the club and eventually it became a yiddish piano bar what i would 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 and there is candlelight and people drinking vodka and eating herring and dark bread. >> that is wonderful. i think some may know or not know, yiddish is generally 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 a language that people spoke day today and people woul