Sunday, June 6, 2021

A Minute of Yiddish: Cookie Kibitznik on All the Ways That You Can Plotz

Cookie Kibitznik, your favorite Jewish mother, is back. She's a tell-it-like-it-is, unfiltered, power-walking, pool-jogging, brisket-making giver of sage advice! She's here to teach you Yiddish, and you'll be plotzing from laughter!

These videos are not meant to compete with serious Yiddish language tutorials such as the new Duolingo  course or Rukhl Schaechter's Word of the Day lessons from the Forward. They focus on Yiddish words that you probably already know, but illustrate their use in hilarious ways. They are produced and acted out by a woman who reveals only her first name, Perri. In today's video and other that we will be sharing in the coming weeks, she assumes the identity of Cookie Kibitznik, a yenta if we ever saw won.

In this episode, Cookie gives the simple definition of the word plotz, and goes on to show the many different situations where it can be used.

Enjoy!

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1 comment:

  1. Love it. As I recall, in a scene from a Three Stooges movie (probably either "You Nazty Spy" or "I'll Never Heil Again"), one of the guys offers the Nazi a seat with the word "Plotz"!; a play on the Yiddish word.

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