"I Speak How I Speak": Shifting Among the Dialects of Yiddish

Eleanor Reissa, singer, discusses how her years performing in Yiddish theater have caused her Yiddish to shift from her parents' Polish dialect towards the Southeastern dialect favored in performances.
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that's exactly my philosophy with my italian and my spanish. AND my german, pennsylvania dutch and yiddish. i don't get much call for anything but spanish. to tell you the truth. 'less i'm babbling. which i like to do. as you can see.