Sunday, May 1, 2016

Yid Life Crisis - Searching for Yiddish Speakers and Second Hand Items in Old Jaffa


We've been following the Canadian comedy duo of Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion as they travel the world in search of funny situtations involving Yiddish culture, language, and food.
 
Their web series, YidLife Crisis, was recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best original digital media series.

They have taken their act on the road, performing a live version of their show in Krakow, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles and Birmingham, England.

The pair has also received a prestigious grant from the Natan Fund and have created a series of five travelogues featuring their impressions of Tel Aviv. In the last two months we posted their funny Valentine’s Day episode guest staring Mayim Bialik and the first of a series of Tel Aviv episodes, Canadians in Cabs Getting Kishkas.

There's a lot of Yiddish in some of the episodes and some of the English includes coarse language that we avoid in our family-friendly posts, so we pick the episodes that we share with you very carefully.

Today we're posting another one of their Tel Aviv episodes . In it, they search the markets in Old Jaffa for used items (alte zachen in Yiddish) and for Yiddish speakers in the street.

Enjoy!
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5 comments:

  1. i would NEVER EVER go to this market. I would not eat the non kosher foods. jews and arabs wont be enemies when the arabs decide they want peace. so i am not liking this video.

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  2. there will be no yiddish in jaffa because it is sephardi for the most part. in jerusalem they will find yiddish speakers. bar ilan is teaching yiddish to many. it is only the frum who will keep this language alive.

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  3. why dont these guys go to bar ilan to find yiddish? there it is alive.

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  4. I had so much fun watching Yid Life Crisis. The food looked so tasty and I know the atmosphere
    In Flea market is very unique.

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