{"id":4350,"date":"2023-04-27T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:10:12","slug":"madame-yiddish-and-her-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/arts\/madame-yiddish-and-her-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Yiddish and Her Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-3.png 634w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-3-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-3-81x96.png 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/yivoencyclopedia.org\/article.aspx\/Language\/Planning_and_Standardization_of_Yiddish\">YIVO Encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Madame Yiddish and Her Escort&#8221; is a cartoon from the Yiddish newspaper <em>Der Morgn Zhurnal<\/em>, or <em>The Morning Journal<\/em>. Published in March of 1952, this cartoon marks the establishment of the Atran Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University. Funded by Jewish philanthropist Frank Atran, it was the first chair in Yiddish studies to ever be created at any American university. Uriel Weinreich, a recent doctoral graduate from Columbia in the field of Yiddish linguistics and author of the famous textbook <em>College Yiddish<\/em>, was appointed to the position. This announcement created much excitement in the Yiddish community all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cartoon depicts philanthropist Frank Atran ushering a woman labeled &#8220;Yiddish&#8221; up the steps of Columbia University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madame Yiddish and Her Escort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Atran <em>[writing on man&#8217;s pant leg]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yiddish <em>[writing on woman&#8217;s dress]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Columbia University founds the chair for the Yiddish language in the name of Frank Atran&#8221;. (according to the latest happy news)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image source: YIVO Encyclopedia &#8220;Madame Yiddish and Her Escort&#8221; is a cartoon from the Yiddish newspaper Der Morgn Zhurnal, or The Morning Journal. Published in March of 1952, this cartoon marks the establishment of the Atran Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Columbia University. Funded by Jewish philanthropist Frank Atran, it was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":4385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-newspaper"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-18a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}