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)