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00:00Just like the Inuit have got 300-plus words for snow, Yiddish has got 300-plus words for

00:08loser.

00:13Growing up, I did not like being spoken to in Yiddish on the street.

00:16It had overtones of poverty, bad, heavy food.

00:27In the theater, there were two types of Jews, dead in a concentration camp or in a uniform

00:33in Israel.

00:34Okay, but there's a whole world of in-between.

00:40It's always going to be provocative to do a production in Berlin in Yiddish.

00:46I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

00:47I learned Yiddish because there's great literature.

00:49Isaac Becheva Singer won the Nobel Prize in Yiddish.

00:53When I was young, I was not told about these playwrights and visionaries.

00:56Though I knew that I was Jewish, I didn't necessarily have Jewish, and I'm starting

01:01to get Jewish.

01:05What's special about this show is that it's new Yiddish work on a bigger stage.

01:09It's so important to do this, especially now.

01:12The right wing has been growing stronger.

01:14Neo-Nazis have been defacing the memorial.

01:17One of the biggest questions is, how can you believe in any beauty in the face of such

01:22darkness?

01:23Yiddish is not just about the past.

01:33What we want is to bring this language alive again.

01:40The difference between a shlemil and shlemazl, the shlemil is the one who drops the soup,

01:45and the shlemazl is the one who it lands on.

01:52Yiddish speakers are people with passion, with heart, with ideas.

01:58And I love those kind of people.