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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