11 April 2021, Sunday

Yiddish and Modern German diverged from Middle German so long ago that these two men are struggling to understand one another. The video also includes a reading of an excerpt from the Yiddish story “If Not Higher” (אױב נישט נאָך העכער) (‎1900), by I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), in the public domain worldwide, and from Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann – was nun?) (1932), by Hans Fallada (1893–1947), in the public domain in Germany if not the US. (Gab, MeWe, Minds, Parler, Tumblr, Facebook)