Colin Powell speaks more Yiddish than I do, my grandma was a German Jew, she spoke a dialect of German from Austria-Hungary and a little bit of Yiddish. Wish I had learned more of both. Instead I lived in El Paso for 10 years and learned a lot of Spanish. It helps that I learned it, because once in a while I get someone who speaks no English at work.
I was raised Amish until i was 17 years old and i speak Yiddish and Italian and Spanish most Amish speak more then one language because they sell their products to so many people that speak other languages
@@danielzak8845 Who told you this i was born and raised Amish Yiddish is not the Native language of the Amish it's Old High German the Amish speaks Yiddish because they sell a hell of a lot of products to Orthodox Jews who speak Yiddish from New York and Pa
@@francisallen4882 You have a small but relevant linguistic confusion, what the Amish speak (as do the Mennonites) is not Old High German but Old Low German (Plattduytsch or Nederduytsch aka Dietsch or Diets) which was the root of all netherlandish dialects today and yes it is indeed related to the german lower rhine medieval dialects that mostly influenced yiddish
@MrLaizard now you confused "Platt"(-deutsch/deitsch) and "Plattdüütsch". The latter is the self-descriptory term for Old Low German (Niederdeutsch). In contrast the former can stand for any German dialect of any Old High or Low German origin. Niederdeutsch (Old Low German) is only spoken only in the northern parts of Germany north of the Benrath line. All German languages south of that line belong to the Old High German language (not to be confused with modern High German!). A large group of Mennonites emigrated from the Palatinate (Pfalz) to Pennsylvania and their language Pennsylvania Dutch (or Deitsch) is of old Western Middle German origin which is part of the Old High German languages and far from Old Low German or even the modern Dutch language! The origin of the Amish is even further south of the Palatinate in Elsaß (Alsace) and Switzerland, where Old Upper German languages were spoken, which are also counted to the Old High German languages. So @Francis Allen is 100% right when he calls *his* language Old High German!
I worked as a mechanic off and on through my college days and for some time after I graduated. The shop where I worked had changed hands and I knew it was time to go. My boss, who I loved like a second father, came to me and said "well, since you are going you had better show me some of the ins and outs of the systems you are working on." I thought this was strange. He knew so much more than I did but we sat and talked mechanics for a while. Then he said "I have trained seven mechanics. You are the last. Wherever you go from here make me proud." He is gone now but not a day goes by that I do not think of that man. I hope he would proud of what I have acomplished.
People ask me what is the key ingredient to the Jewish people's success. My answer is "education." Most of my father's family perished in the holocaust. My grandfather on my mother's side would tell me two things... One was "always keep your hat by the door" and "an education is the one thing 'they' can't strip away from you."
I'm Black-Jamaican and Jewish, two completely different cultures but both of my parents grew up being told education is something that can never be stripped from you.
My Dad had a Toy Store in brooklyn for many years. We were all shlepers! That’s the type of thing my dad would do as well, you can learn a lot working in a small retail toy store! But I’m still a shleper!!
I always thought a schlepper had a somewhat negative connotation. Sure I used to schlep my books to school everyday or I schlepped all those boxes downstairs to the basement, but whenever my dad used the term schlepper it usually meant that person was kind of a nobody. I think it’s both a verb and a noun. I heard the word schlep a lot. The word schlepper was rarely used, but when it was it wasn’t a flattering description. Maybe it’s an east coast, west coast thing? I’m a west coast guy so maybe that has something to do with it.
@@surferdude44444 I'm a Jewish east coast woman and I can tell you that I've never heard the word used to infer that the schlepper was "less than". It's just a really fun, cool language. I schlep my groceries, dogs, etc. No worries.
In Serbian, a šleper (schlepper) is a semi truck that carries things, while šlepati (to schlep) typically means to tow something like a car for example
@@surferdude44444 Yiddish is usually a bit different from German in the more subtle meanings of words, but in German, there is also both schleppen (verb) and Schlepper (noun). But there, while schleppen just means doing some heavy carrying, a Schlepper is especially a person who will engage in human trafficking. Again, Yiddish will be different, and a Schlepper may just be somebody who schlepps, but at least in German, a Schlepper does sound very negative.
For those of you making idiotic comments about Mr Powell and his colouring - He is, like many Jamaicans, or those whose parents are Jamaicans, of very mixed heritage...our Country's motto is 'Out of Many, One People'. Only in the US do you have this massive issue where you have to put people in a meaningless box...and why shouldn't he have learnt Yiddish..I speak some Yiddish from my Polish Grandmothers side, via England, and Gaelic from my father's side..Go figure...and my children also speak Russian, German and Jamaican patois from their heritage....my husband is Chinese, German, French and English (his grandparents), BORN JAMAICAN 🇯🇲 Out of Many, One People!!!
My parents were from Puerto Rico. By virtue of the fact that there were so many influences, we run the gamut of colors. I can trace my direct lineage back to France and Spain, as well as the indigenous Taino people. My grandparents were in fact born subjects of the Spanish king. I had the good fortune of growing up in a predominantly Irish/Italian neighborhood, but we had everybody there. I learned about two dozen Yiddish words and phrases and I throw them out there from time to time, much to the astonishment of others. E Pluribus Unum, and yes, IDIC (with appropriate hand sign).
I wouldn't have thought that Peres would know or speak that much Yiddish and Russian Yiddish would be different to say Litvish Yiddish surely and Peres Would be Sephardic.
@@shaunboden Born in Poland, grew up on a kibbutz, where many other immigrants from around Europe would have had it as a common language: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/peres/biographical/
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of NY was once acused of being an antisemite by someone running against him for Mayor of the city. LaGuardia said he would be glad to debate the man on one condition; that the debate be conducted entirely in Yiddish! The Mayor had onced worked at Ellis Island processing immigrants and his mother´s side of the family were Hungarian and italian Jews. LaGuardia was fluent in Yiddish.
@@konstantinopoulos33 Refer to Fiorello LaGuardia's wikipedia page which includes source citations for this story. "Um. I am Jewish" may not have been as memorable or as stately. Also, I don't think he considered himself Jewish. Rather he was a descendant of Jews and Italians, apparently involved enough culturally to develop fluency in Yiddish.
Mr Leach -His wife was very much against it. And one can suspect what might of happened if he had become President. And I suspect that his wife thought this as well.
I read his autobiography " A Soldier's Way" and in my opinion General Powell was an out and out "mentsch." I know he became the fall guy over the Iraq war. But I still believe he would of made a great President A friend of mine's son who was aspiring to be an army officer read the book. And it has inspired him to become one of the youngest lieutenant colonel's in the British army.
@@debmar5771 Hey-- did you learn "pipik" as "Belly Button" or just "Belly?" I was taught it was "Belly Button." My parents would joke when I was little and about to go take a bath, "Don't forget to wash your pipik!" Mine was an "inny" and from all the fuss about washing it out I became afraid that bugs or lint or something would try to live in there. Early childhood, right?
This is not just a Yiddish thing. Talk to anyone working in an old-world family business and they will recount the same experience. The elders had to push hard to get their way - they are happy to see a young buck do the same.
@@akzebraminer5679 I've thought about things in an entirely different way lately. Eventually the human race will become extinct. It might be a billion years from now, it might be tomorrow. It was Noam Chomsky's hysteria about it that got me thinking. I've lived a long rich comfortable fulfilling life. Were I to die in a catastrophic event like global thermonuclear war along with everybody else., I'd have the consolation of knowing that I lived during the best period of human existence. I've outlived everyone I loved and who loved me. Given that there is nothing noble about our species its loss will go unnoticed and unlamented by any intelligent species if there is one that discovers our ecistence. BTW I have no religion, no belief in god or the devil, or heaven or hell and having had one near death experience about 30 years ago it taught me I'm not afraid of death. If there is one species whose extinction deserves lamenting it's dogs. They are far better than humans.
Kali - African boy from Wa-hima tribe, Staś's servant who quickly becomes his friend. He faithfully serves his master and helps him to get going through the dangers of Africa. Kali became popular when a Polish colloquial saying about double standard was coined around the so-called Kali's morality: If somebody takes Kali's cow, it's a bad deed. If Kali takes somebody's cow, it's a good deed. n Desert and Wilderness (Polish: W pustyni i w puszczy) is a popular young adult novel by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers. In Desert and Wilderness tells the story of two young friends, Staś Tarkowski (14 years old) and Nel Rawlison (8 years old), kidnapped by rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. It was adapted for film twice, in 1973 and in 2001.
🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 hehehee!! I was amazed by that as well, and his seemingly deep understanding! But don’t worry, Yiddish (culture) has a way of creeping into ones soul. 😘👍🏻
Not surprised to hear a Sicilian is stubborn but I'm glad he's very sweet to you and that's it sounds like you enjoy spending time together. But what I objected to (which may have just been wording and not your intention) was that you say you try to "train" him rather than teach. Honestly "train" is a word I've only heard people use in that context to describe teaching animals but perhaps you didn't mean it that way, especially since it sounds like you have a very good relationship with him
schleppen is from yiddish, but i could not find any evidence that "schwarzfahren" (be a clandestine passenger) does have its roots in the yiddish idioma, only that "schnorrer", a word frequently used in today's german language, does.
My time up north, where my family originated, bonding over Gilbert Gottfried and learning about Judaism from my Jewish friends in college, I began to use the term "schmuck" and "oy vey", while my Gentile working class Chicago family had already been using Yiddish slang my entire life to a mild degree. But it was when I looked at our immigration records from Lithuania that I realized my friends' calling me the "honorary Jew" may be a lot more than just "honorary"... considering all the places I believe we could have come from were 95% Jewish when we left in the late 1800s. Looking at pictures of my late 'Lithuanian' great-grandma, who I look very much like, we definitely were NOT tall blond Lithuanians. Much more Jewish looking! RIP Colin Powell, you're an American hero.
I have a great-grandfather who found his second wife in Montreal, having gone there himself, straight to the Jewish district there, because his first wife was Jewish; the rest of my father's people were Protestant Ulster Scots.
You mean the WMDs they found in Iraq a couple of months ago? The same WMDs that Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi railed about back in the day? Those WMDs...?
@Cinozzz First of all Powell is a CCNY grad and 2nd, as a Jew I never heard that line about oy vey/Ivy and I don't find it offensive at all--I think it's pretty good and intend to use it with my fellow Jews. How I've never heard it before is pretty amazing as I'm pretty well-versed in Jewish humor.
@@vastwasteland77 i dig funny more than i dig p.c. and so I'm tickled also. .but I'm more than 99% sure the guys an antisemite. is he a nazi? i don't know. its quite possible.
@@Allergictocatstoo reference what I've said to ken browd. i say it because I've noticed nazis and antisemites on line love to say oye vae (maybe they heard it from jackie mason )? and shlomo ,cause it sounds funny to non jewish ears (andthe ears of assimmilated jews also )shlomo is the real word-name for solomon. they also make fun of the word shalom by saying for example,shooloooom !!!! etc. nazis exist anti semites exist and amelikites exist !they're not always the same thing ,but more often than enough. and theyre all different degrees of dog sh t. etc. ✌
@@vastwasteland77 I thought of it 20 years ago. I did think it must be out there already. But now...damn...I need to copyright and trademark this! Is there a lawyer here?
I know he made mistakes…those without sin cast the first stone…the Jamaican motto is one of the greatest if not the greatest..Out of many ONE people.. it brings tears to my eyes because of its power to heal, instil love and kill hatred. Hatred, racism and oppression are the fruits of Lucifer…beware how we invest as we will be vomiting it out on others and more importantly on ourselves.
The true tragedy in most peoples lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
Gimme a break. Powell is a bagman. He lies and picks up payments and runs errands for the deep state and always has. Look up his involvement in the My Lai Massacre. Colin Powell is one of the generals that is always ready to drive tanks over the citizens. Fuck him.
@@paulparoma Diminutive means small. A diminutive person is short and small. A diminutive word is a "cute" version of a word or name: for example, "duckling" is a diminutive of "duck" and Billy is a diminutive form of the name William.
@@listerchen778 it's not necessarily endearing or cute, . It's a grammatical form that some languages have to make something smaller. A very well known example is the Spanish suffix "'-ito", as in "perro" (dog)/"perrito" (little dog). In Yiddish the diminutive form is typically "-el", as in "hays" (house), "hayzl" (little house). It is often used as an edearing form but sometimes it can denote disdain or simply just that something is small.
@@jamessilver6429 this dude killed 1 million Iraqi people (mostly women and kids ) he is worst than Saddam then he lied ..about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq UN could not find any after the occupation, then he lied about democracy in Iraq ..they fucked up the country and brought terrorists from Afghanistan to it .. I am sorry your hero is hated by most of the world ..
Colin Powell speaks more Yiddish than I do, my grandma was a German Jew, she spoke a dialect of German from Austria-Hungary and a little bit of Yiddish. Wish I had learned more of both. Instead I lived in El Paso for 10 years and learned a lot of Spanish. It helps that I learned it, because once in a while I get someone who speaks no English at work.
There's still time, no? Duolingo, bubbeleh.
I was raised Amish until i was 17 years old and i speak Yiddish and Italian and Spanish most Amish speak more then one language because they sell their products to so many people that speak other languages
Amish is not the group that speaks Yiddish.
@@danielzak8845 Who told you this i was born and raised Amish Yiddish is not the Native language of the Amish it's Old High German the Amish speaks Yiddish because they sell a hell of a lot of products to Orthodox Jews who speak Yiddish from New York and Pa
@@francisallen4882 You have a small but relevant linguistic confusion, what the Amish speak (as do the Mennonites) is not Old High German but Old Low German (Plattduytsch or Nederduytsch aka Dietsch or Diets) which was the root of all netherlandish dialects today and yes it is indeed related to the german lower rhine medieval dialects that mostly influenced yiddish
@@MrLaizard What’s the difference between the Amish and Mennonite?
@MrLaizard now you confused "Platt"(-deutsch/deitsch) and "Plattdüütsch". The latter is the self-descriptory term for Old Low German (Niederdeutsch). In contrast the former can stand for any German dialect of any Old High or Low German origin. Niederdeutsch (Old Low German) is only spoken only in the northern parts of Germany north of the Benrath line. All German languages south of that line belong to the Old High German language (not to be confused with modern High German!). A large group of Mennonites emigrated from the Palatinate (Pfalz) to Pennsylvania and their language Pennsylvania Dutch (or Deitsch) is of old Western Middle German origin which is part of the Old High German languages and far from Old Low German or even the modern Dutch language! The origin of the Amish is even further south of the Palatinate in Elsaß (Alsace) and Switzerland, where Old Upper German languages were spoken, which are also counted to the Old High German languages. So @Francis Allen is 100% right when he calls *his* language Old High German!
When a person encourages a young person to continue with their education, that’s a sign of care and love! Shalom
Truly!
I worked as a mechanic off and on through my college days and for some time after I graduated. The shop where I worked had changed hands and I knew it was time to go. My boss, who I loved like a second father, came to me and said "well, since you are going you had better show me some of the ins and outs of the systems you are working on." I thought this was strange. He knew so much more than I did but we sat and talked mechanics for a while. Then he said "I have trained seven mechanics. You are the last. Wherever you go from here make me proud." He is gone now but not a day goes by that I do not think of that man. I hope he would proud of what I have acomplished.
James Ingram p>’
Awe!!! I’m so sure that his proud of you!!! 💕💕💕💕👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
So beautiful!
Thank you for sharing this. Touches me.
Well said. Good man.
I am an Atheist but it comforts me to think that now they are all together again. RIP
easy to see how much colin powell appreciated that man. teared up thinking about him all these years later. very moving.
People ask me what is the key ingredient to the Jewish people's success. My answer is "education." Most of my father's family perished in the holocaust. My grandfather on my mother's side would tell me two things... One was "always keep your hat by the door" and "an education is the one thing 'they' can't strip away from you."
Yea ! Education! That's gotta be the answer .
And degrees of ethnic nepotism 2 lol
Education and guns, the big equalizers. One for social mobility, the other for an unfortunate encounter.
I'm Black-Jamaican and Jewish, two completely different cultures but both of my parents grew up being told education is something that can never be stripped from you.
@@marleymescudi wow👍🏼 how did it come you r Jewish? U converted?
My Dad had a Toy Store in brooklyn for many years. We were all shlepers! That’s the type of thing my dad would do as well, you can learn a lot working in a small retail toy store! But I’m still a shleper!!
I always thought a schlepper had a somewhat negative connotation. Sure I used to schlep my books to school everyday or I schlepped all those boxes downstairs to the basement, but whenever my dad used the term schlepper it usually meant that person was kind of a nobody. I think it’s both a verb and a noun. I heard the word schlep a lot. The word schlepper was rarely used, but when it was it wasn’t a flattering description. Maybe it’s an east coast, west coast thing? I’m a west coast guy so maybe that has something to do with it.
@@surferdude44444 I'm a Jewish east coast woman and I can tell you that I've never heard the word used to infer that the schlepper was "less than". It's just a really fun, cool language. I schlep my groceries, dogs, etc. No worries.
In Serbian, a šleper (schlepper) is a semi truck that carries things, while šlepati (to schlep) typically means to tow something like a car for example
@@surferdude44444 Yiddish is usually a bit different from German in the more subtle meanings of words, but in German, there is also both schleppen (verb) and Schlepper (noun). But there, while schleppen just means doing some heavy carrying, a Schlepper is especially a person who will engage in human trafficking. Again, Yiddish will be different, and a Schlepper may just be somebody who schlepps, but at least in German, a Schlepper does sound very negative.
Andy Arken like a Nazi pimp!
For those of you making idiotic comments about Mr Powell and his colouring - He is, like many Jamaicans, or those whose parents are Jamaicans, of very mixed heritage...our Country's motto is 'Out of Many, One People'. Only in the US do you have this massive issue where you have to put people in a meaningless box...and why shouldn't he have learnt Yiddish..I speak some Yiddish from my Polish Grandmothers side, via England, and Gaelic from my father's side..Go figure...and my children also speak Russian, German and Jamaican patois from their heritage....my husband is Chinese, German, French and English (his grandparents), BORN JAMAICAN 🇯🇲 Out of Many, One People!!!
Color, schmolor, Mr. Powell is all American.
Well said, thank you.
@@leeboriack8054 except he’s a liberal and votes on the basis of skin color over policies (he’s a “Republicam” who supported obama).
My parents were from Puerto Rico. By virtue of the fact that there were so many influences, we run the gamut of colors. I can trace my direct lineage back to France and Spain, as well as the indigenous Taino people. My grandparents were in fact born subjects of the Spanish king.
I had the good fortune of growing up in a predominantly Irish/Italian neighborhood, but we had everybody there. I learned about two dozen Yiddish words and phrases and I throw them out there from time to time, much to the astonishment of others.
E Pluribus Unum, and yes, IDIC (with appropriate hand sign).
@@leeboriack8054 Actually, he's *General* Powell, even though he retired.
I believe that when Colin Powell met Shimon Peres for the first time, Powell astonished him by addressing him in Yiddish.
hell to them
@@messianic_scam shut up
I wouldn't have thought that Peres would know or speak that much Yiddish and Russian Yiddish would be different to say Litvish Yiddish surely and Peres Would be Sephardic.
@@shaunboden Born in Poland, grew up on a kibbutz, where many other immigrants from around Europe would have had it as a common language: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/peres/biographical/
@@lporquai9048
they are bad peopl . period
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of NY was once acused of being an antisemite by someone running against him for Mayor of the city. LaGuardia said he would be glad to debate the man on one condition; that the debate be conducted entirely in Yiddish! The Mayor had onced worked at Ellis Island processing immigrants and his mother´s side of the family were Hungarian and italian Jews. LaGuardia was fluent in Yiddish.
I see this story in a few places but is there a source for this? It does seem like ‘Um. I am Jewish’ would be a more immediatw answer.
@@konstantinopoulos33 Refer to Fiorello LaGuardia's wikipedia page which includes source citations for this story. "Um. I am Jewish" may not have been as memorable or as stately. Also, I don't think he considered himself Jewish. Rather he was a descendant of Jews and Italians, apparently involved enough culturally to develop fluency in Yiddish.
Good memories are precious.
That’s such a beautiful, touching story! Much respect to Collin Powell!
Hanna GG Then spell his name right.
yadda yadda yadda
@@williamwilson6499 ooh, excuse me, I mistakenly added an extra “L” - sue me. What a clown! 🤡
War criminal
Now tell me about the Semite Jew. Who's 1st? ☠🇮🇱☠
Touching story by a great man.
Colon tried to cover up the Mei Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
I really don't doubt it.
No one would mistake you for some furniture shlepper!
Very touching.
A very gracious sentiment from a warrior. I'll never understand why he didn't run for President, given the comments below.
He was too good for the job
Mr Leach -His wife was very much against it. And one can suspect what might of happened if he had become President. And I suspect that his wife thought this as well.
@@barrybernstein9049 can you elaborate?
@@billballinger5622 His wife was afraid that he would be assassinated for being the first African American President of the US.
I read his autobiography " A Soldier's Way" and in my opinion General Powell was an out and out "mentsch." I know he
became the fall guy over the Iraq war. But I still believe he would of made a great President A friend of mine's son who
was aspiring to be an army officer read the book. And it has inspired him to become one of the youngest lieutenant colonel's in
the British army.
Anyone ask him what Colin did at Bohemian Grove ???
hybrid abid would do anything
Really touching story. Hey I wonder if there are any other stories he's famous for telling
Excellent.
RIP General Powell. What a lovely story.
For a genuine Yiddish treat, listen to all of Mickey Katz's "Duvid Crocket." You'll never be the same again, and you'll never stop singing it.
All right. I'll bite. I'll get back to ya tomorrow on this recommendation. I love weird. I'm going for it.
I remember his "Feet up, pat him on the pippick."
@@debmar5771 Hey-- did you learn "pipik" as "Belly Button" or just "Belly?" I was taught it was "Belly Button." My parents would joke when I was little and about to go take a bath, "Don't forget to wash your pipik!" Mine was an "inny" and from all the fuss about washing it out I became afraid that bugs or lint or something would try to live in there. Early childhood, right?
Touching. And I side of Powell I've never seen before.
So beautiful.. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It's good to speak the language of your bosses
Yeah. Just ask the Irish who, thanks to the Empire that's still there (and not just in the North), don't have their own anymore. 😠
A Man of great character, this enlightens me to how he came by it.
What a mensch !
Explains his war crime
A Mensch!!! Don't make them like this anymore... :(
How do you say "War criminal?"
This is not just a Yiddish thing. Talk to anyone working in an old-world family business and they will recount the same experience. The elders had to push hard to get their way - they are happy to see a young buck do the same.
Didn't know my brother supported Tottenham 🤓👌💯👍❤️😎🏆⚽
Killer
Now that is a man I'd vote for President.
No wonder how war criminals become presidents. May he rotten in hell.
You’re the perfect example of why we’re doomed. Yes, keep voting for neocons and neolibs go ahead
@@akzebraminer5679 I've thought about things in an entirely different way lately. Eventually the human race will become extinct. It might be a billion years from now, it might be tomorrow. It was Noam Chomsky's hysteria about it that got me thinking. I've lived a long rich comfortable fulfilling life. Were I to die in a catastrophic event like global thermonuclear war along with everybody else., I'd have the consolation of knowing that I lived during the best period of human existence. I've outlived everyone I loved and who loved me. Given that there is nothing noble about our species its loss will go unnoticed and unlamented by any intelligent species if there is one that discovers our ecistence. BTW I have no religion, no belief in god or the devil, or heaven or hell and having had one near death experience about 30 years ago it taught me I'm not afraid of death. If there is one species whose extinction deserves lamenting it's dogs. They are far better than humans.
@@selcukcilek555 -No need more may be said Mr Cilik why our security services need to be on their guard
@@markfischer3626 you're seriously tripping
God bless that family...and God bless you sir....
I would have trusted Colin Powell in any position in government, appointed or elected, all the way up through the President
Why would you trust him? He was a liar. Remember that fake vial he brought to the UN?
Beautiful
Bless you Colin....love these types of diamonds
Makes me kvell.☺
beautiful
Shows the power of kindness.
I miss this man
R.I.P. Colin Powell
Warmonger of the decade
Love!
Very nice story!
Kali - African boy from Wa-hima tribe, Staś's servant who quickly becomes his friend. He faithfully serves his master and helps him to get going through the dangers of Africa. Kali became popular when a Polish colloquial saying about double standard was coined around the so-called Kali's morality: If somebody takes Kali's cow, it's a bad deed. If Kali takes somebody's cow, it's a good deed. n Desert and Wilderness (Polish: W pustyni i w puszczy) is a popular young adult novel by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers. In Desert and Wilderness tells the story of two young friends, Staś Tarkowski (14 years old) and Nel Rawlison (8 years old), kidnapped by rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. It was adapted for film twice, in 1973 and in 2001.
The late Colin Powell (OBM) frequently communicated in Yiddish with BiBi Netanyahu
Lovely 💕
Great story 👍
i speak yiddish fluently whoever wants to talk
🙏 RIP Mr Colin Powell
wonderful...there is good in the world
Laszlo Szujo. Yes,there is,however,unfortunately,pretty scarce.
A black man speaking babylonians
Beautiful, it is so important to have a good encourager
Coli, remember Weapons of mass destruction, yeah, thank you for caring for humanity
Best comment!
He got played just like the entire intelligence community did. WMD was one of the most successful disinfo campaigns ever
Bill Ballinger how’d they get played?
@@billballinger5622 These "super elites" played the world, coordinated with intent
Does it make you feel better to say that?
Good pronunciation! I'm still trying to train my Sicilian husband after 14 years.
🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 hehehee!! I was amazed by that as well, and his seemingly deep understanding! But don’t worry, Yiddish (culture) has a way of creeping into ones soul. 😘👍🏻
"Train?" Macàri iddu pruva a ti caciari accussì nu armalu? Picchì si a tò risposta e no, veramenti si tròppu strafuttendi...
@@hannagg9365 ❤
@@AirBuddDwyer Credu chì pruvate à dimmi chì furmà un Sicilianu hè impussibile. Lé, hè testardu. Pò esse assai dolce, è mi face ride!
Not surprised to hear a Sicilian is stubborn but I'm glad he's very sweet to you and that's it sounds like you enjoy spending time together. But what I objected to (which may have just been wording and not your intention) was that you say you try to "train" him rather than teach. Honestly "train" is a word I've only heard people use in that context to describe teaching animals but perhaps you didn't mean it that way, especially since it sounds like you have a very good relationship with him
Great story
can't hear it.
Colin Powell 1937-2021 You were a great man. Rest in peace.
Love it
IThe Internet is ALIVE!I was JUST thinking about this. A.I. can READ MINDS. 👁
Behind every great person are the spirits of wisemen passed…
All the best Collin powells
schleppen is from yiddish, but i could not find any evidence that "schwarzfahren" (be a clandestine passenger) does have its roots in the yiddish idioma, only that "schnorrer", a word frequently used in today's german language, does.
Kool
Colin Powell was really close with jews.
R.I.P.
"nosotros gobernamos hace tiempo con el terror es nuestro método preferido"
Colin Powell was a good man. Requiescat In Pace.
Nice haircut, Colin.
That rogue hair apparently growing out of his right ear needs some attention.
GOD BLESS COLIN POWELL
The man would have made a good President .
My time up north, where my family originated, bonding over Gilbert Gottfried and learning about Judaism from my Jewish friends in college, I began to use the term "schmuck" and "oy vey", while my Gentile working class Chicago family had already been using Yiddish slang my entire life to a mild degree. But it was when I looked at our immigration records from Lithuania that I realized my friends' calling me the "honorary Jew" may be a lot more than just "honorary"... considering all the places I believe we could have come from were 95% Jewish when we left in the late 1800s. Looking at pictures of my late 'Lithuanian' great-grandma, who I look very much like, we definitely were NOT tall blond Lithuanians. Much more Jewish looking! RIP Colin Powell, you're an American hero.
I have a great-grandfather who found his second wife in Montreal, having gone there himself, straight to the Jewish district there, because his first wife was Jewish; the rest of my father's people were Protestant Ulster Scots.
RIP Colin Powell
How do you say "Lying about WMDs" in Yiddish?
You mean the WMDs they found in Iraq a couple of months ago? The same WMDs that Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi railed about back in the day? Those WMDs...?
+Christopher Marlowe nicht shuldig
According to Google Translate, "lignerish vegn vepanz fun mase tseshterung", but YMMV.
joint cheifs of staff
"lign iber der masntsershterungsvafe"
He went to an Oy Vey League School!!!
@Cinozzz First of all Powell is a CCNY grad and 2nd, as a Jew I never heard that line about oy vey/Ivy and I don't find it offensive at all--I think it's pretty good and intend to use it with my fellow Jews. How I've never heard it before is pretty amazing as I'm pretty well-versed in Jewish humor.
@@vastwasteland77 i dig funny more than i dig p.c. and so I'm tickled also. .but I'm more than 99% sure the guys an antisemite. is he a nazi? i don't know. its quite possible.
Hilarious!
Such a funny man, nu?
@@Allergictocatstoo reference what I've said to ken browd. i say it because I've noticed nazis and antisemites on line love to say oye vae (maybe they heard it from jackie mason )? and shlomo ,cause it sounds funny to non jewish ears (andthe ears of assimmilated jews also )shlomo is the real word-name for solomon. they also make fun of the word shalom by saying for example,shooloooom !!!! etc. nazis exist anti semites exist and amelikites exist !they're not always the same thing ,but more often than enough. and theyre all different degrees of dog sh t. etc. ✌
@@vastwasteland77 I thought of it 20 years ago. I did think it must be out there already. But now...damn...I need to copyright and trademark this! Is there a lawyer here?
Good and great leader.
Is that a long ear hair
rest in peace to a good man
Met him before he died. Cursed like a sailor but he was in the army.
I know he made mistakes…those without sin cast the first stone…the Jamaican motto is one of the greatest if not the greatest..Out of many ONE people.. it brings tears to my eyes because of its power to heal, instil love and kill hatred. Hatred, racism and oppression are the fruits of Lucifer…beware how we invest as we will be vomiting it out on others and more importantly on ourselves.
Mistakes that led to thousands of people being killed for corporate interests. A true sociopath may he Rest In Peace
too old to tear up, too old to tear up ;)
Imagine having a net worth of $60M but not being able to hire a barber that can prevent you having stray 3 inch long hairs on your head
And then ask how a retired General is worth $60 million.
This explains a lot
The true tragedy in most peoples lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
He really was the only one on that dubious team who saw what was happening - too late, perhaps.
Gimme a break. Powell is a bagman. He lies and picks up payments and runs errands for the deep state and always has. Look up his involvement in the My Lai Massacre. Colin Powell is one of the generals that is always ready to drive tanks over the citizens. Fuck him.
But he lied about the "weapons of mass destruction". This will follow him for ever.
@@judithbereczky4114 - Intentionally or cheated and lied to by people he trusted.
Politicians. (He was/is an army man).
@@judithbereczky4114 The entire intelligence community was played. WMD in iraq was one of the most successful disinfo campaigns of all time
I will miss Colin Powell.
May the GREATEST I AM will continually BLESS Gen Sir Collin Powell. Beshem YESHUA HaMosiach. Hallelu Yah amen
What is "dimunitive"?
endearing form usually used with a loved close person like tommy instead of tom or thomas, jimmy instead of jim or james
@@listerchen778 Do you realize this word does not even exist? And learn to use capitalization and punctuation. It won't kill you.
@@paulparoma Diminutive means small. A diminutive person is short and small. A diminutive word is a "cute" version of a word or name: for example, "duckling" is a diminutive of "duck" and Billy is a diminutive form of the name William.
@@listerchen778 i see you are pretty hopeless.
@@listerchen778 it's not necessarily endearing or cute, . It's a grammatical form that some languages have to make something smaller. A very well known example is the Spanish suffix "'-ito", as in "perro" (dog)/"perrito" (little dog). In Yiddish the diminutive form is typically "-el", as in "hays" (house), "hayzl" (little house). It is often used as an edearing form but sometimes it can denote disdain or simply just that something is small.
Collin Powell would have made a great president.
He was without a doubt a great man.
Does the word Sherpa come from Shlepper?
No, Sherpa is from Nepali, their sounding similar is a coincidence
The interviewer should tell him about the long hair growing out of his right ear.
That was really bugging me too
Is that all you got out of this interview. Illiterate one!
"Is that fur coming out of your ear?"
The hair is growing from the side of his head, above the ear, smuck.
Yeah, that's something that unfortunately happens to a lot of men when they get older, and it's easier to overlook when the hair it white like that.
RIP
RIP Colin.
RIP General Powell. We lost a great one.
The deep state lost a great liar.
Whats war criminal in Yiddish
Don't know but drek kop tokhes lokh should suffice.
sadaam hussein for one.
@@jamessilver6429 this dude killed 1 million Iraqi people (mostly women and kids ) he is worst than Saddam then he lied ..about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq UN could not find any after the occupation, then he lied about democracy in Iraq ..they fucked up the country and brought terrorists from Afghanistan to it .. I am sorry your hero is hated by most of the world ..
War Criminal.
i guess even war criminals get to be lauded over.