yiddish the wealth of my treasure much the kreet urs -- from it's yiddish.o many true, simple and core people wandering through countries and over the world where truth -- [music] ♪ [applause] this next piece is actually, this piece and the next piece going into it actually have a really nice story about it. the next piece is very, very well known by people who know yiddish folk songs. now, in this piece, this was said so it was classically it's not the same tune as most people know it. know the piece. so, it's very beautiful. it's a holocaust song. reach out your white hand to me. running over my words are tierce that want to rest in your hand the poetry is gorgeous. and in this piece, i was at a camp where we all learned yiddish. there was an old man and he sang not this piece but the regular version. this woman was working and said, who are you with this piece? nobody knew if he was a holocaust survivor. everyone was lored by this man who could get up and sing this song when he was a survivor, everybody was breaking out in tears and was amazing and the ne

probably when you hear it you know it if you heard yiddish songs before. it's talking about a little girl, don't say a word. the god of abham will come. not yet, you have to respect there is not 3 stars in the sky means the jewish is that bot will apeer. wait a minute and it's a beautiful song i hope you will enjoy. ♪[applause] well, thank you so much for being a fabulous audience. i hate to say goodbye but i must. come to the jewish music festival. there are appetizers and there are amazing evening planned for you. come and be a part of it learn about yiddish. if this interested you at all come and learn more. there is so much richness no matter if you are jewish or know yiddish. there is so much to learn and enjoy. i hope you enjoyed. i want to give a thanks to john. [applause] [inaudible]. [applause] and i want to quickly say i have some cd's down dollar. one more song. one more song. thank you. so, i wanted to say really quick i have cd's if you want to purchase them. [laughter]. [laughter] wow! i never gotten so -- um -- so, thank you. anyways i have

my grandparents spoke russian, romanian, yiddish, and german. a sixth language? no way. they learned english, but they were never comfortable with it and they forgot it as soon as they could. my parents didn't speak english either, but they were going to live their lives in this country so they've learned it. they always spoken with a heavy accent and was something that was always a struggle for them. as they got older, they didn't want to do it anymore. my father spoke his last words in yiddish. we are born here, my native english speakers. i think you can mostly understand me. what i think about technology, i see a parallel and my family because i think about my parents, my parents have really become my grandparents' generation. if technology is something they did not want to learn. boy, would she like to forget it. she hates technology. we have really become a skilled computer users because we have had to. it is something we have had to learn, and we speak technology with an accent. we don't really know it intuitively. i looked at my kids, they are native speakers. th

there is an old yiddish as saying that reminds of flexibility and humility. man makes plans, go laughs. obviously, planning is useful ,but god may well have other ideas. our ability to deal with his plans means that we have to be well grounded. it is a matter of putting yourself in a position to take advantage of opportunity when the time comes. your education here is the start of this proposition. a degree like yours, whether it is in bible studies, education, or christian ministries, helps put you in a position to seize the opportunities that present themselves and put them to good use. here is the point. success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. the essential ingredient in this preparation is old fashioned hard work. i happen to be a big nascar far. n. the drivers on the nascar circuit say that you make your ownluck. work hard to put yourself in a position to win. you may not win, if you are not close to the front with two laps to go, you are not going to win. thomas jefferson said it this way. he said, i am a great believer in luck and i find tha

the latvian, russian, and a lot of jewish population, yiddish, a mixed bag. and learning german in school. my language is a bit chaotic. >> charlie: this is a labor of love for you, because you're putting up are your own money, yes? >> yes. charlie: with your partner. >> with my partner, yes. charlie: why this? >> i really didn't want it to get into a situation to go to broadway producers and get myself into the sort of situation that i have to play this, if by any chance, it's a success, at least public success, that you have to really work until the audience will sort of fade out, you know. i've been there and i wanted to kind of, first of all, control the -- you know, the rehearsal process a little bit, and decide how many weeks here and there, in which countries i can perform, and have something to say. >> charlie: "in paris" is based on a short story by a russian -- >> that's right. he was a great writer, who lived in the '30s, '40s, beginning of '50s in paris after the civil war. in russia he was a -- >> charlie: and won a nobel prize. >> the first russ

hard to make out, but the poster in the background of a cop who is fingerprinting is partly yiddish. so german-american being fingerprinted. the law actually required the wives of non-citizens germans in the u.s. to be figured -- fingerprinted, too. that meant that even if he were a native-born american woman with no german connection at all but married one of these guys, you still had to be fingerprinted. so a climate of suspicion, fear, great tension. i should say before i move on from that just briefly, very apropos to this museum, the spills over after the end of the war and to, again, well, we don't have -- excuse me, because it did not fight anymore. there has been a russian revolution. radicals takeover in russia, communists, and when of the u.s. army intelligence officers stationed in new york city during world war one, and i @booktv a guy named john d. trevor who had spent the war -- spent the work tracing german spies to size by 1919 that the next threat is going to be that the juice on the lower east side, bolsheviks, after all communism as a jewish plot he has decided, he

." >> bubbe, what's today's yiddish word?oday's word is "bubbe", meaning "grandmother." >> dretzin: bubbe cooks, and her grandson avram does everything else. >> hi. >> well, hello. rachel and doug, welcome to my home. shalom. come in. come into my favorite spot, the kitchen. are you hungry? do you want to eat? it's just tuna fish with a little bit of mayo. and then, roll it up carefully. >> dretzin: thank you. >> thank you, bubbe. >> you know, i worked until i was 73. i worked for a bank. and all of a sudden, this came along, and now i'm too... too busy. >> the internet, really, i have to say, added years to bubbe's life. >> i think, these days, it's important for any age. i mean, it's growing... it's changing so fast that if you don't keep up with it a little bit, you're really left behind. >> rushkoff: do you sometimes feel bad for kids being raised in an... in an internet era? that they depend so much on the digital for their sense of connection to other people? >> they grew up with it; to them, it's like second nature. an