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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

This Yente Found The Perfect Match, Performing 'Fiddler On The Roof' In Yiddish

NPR: Actor Jackie Hoffman grew up hearing Yiddish, but not really speaking it.

"I spoke what my mother calls kitchen Yiddish," Hoffman says — words here and there that she picked up from conversations between her mother and grandmother.

The language had always been a part of her life, but when she landed the part of Yente the matchmaker in a Yiddish language version of Fiddler on the Roof, she panicked. "It was intimidating," Hoffman admits.

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