Saturday, September 15, 2018

Yiddish Pronunciation Shtetl vs Shetl















Julie Cohen [ filmmaker] : OK, here's the plan everybody

Customer/Narrator 2: What's the plan?




Cohen: I'm going to be handing out these scripts to you. We're going to go around table reading paragraph by paragraph just like a seder.  

Everyone: Oh, good.



Cohen: Go ahead with the first paragraph when you're ready, Number 1.

Customer/Narrator 1: The story of the Russ family begins like so many Jewish immigrant stories many more ...

[ Cohen clicks clapper board 🎬 ] 

  

Narrator 1: The story of the Russ family begins like so many Jewish immigrant stories more than a hundred years ago when poverty and pogroms drove them ... 


[ Cohen clicks clapper board again 🎬 ]





Narrator 1: Drove them from the shetls of Eastern Europe




Customer / Narrator 2: Shtetls!


Narrator 1: Shetls, that's what I said

Narrator 2: No, shtetl

Narrator 1: Shtetls! Yes! So, do I have to do it again?







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