27 Responses

1. Wow!

2. He seems to have some type of mental disability.

3. OMG!!! Hilarious!!!!

4. How does “Chassidic Yiddish” differ from Yiddish spoken by a misnaged??

5. So? There was once an Arab worker in Torah Ore that spoke fluent Chassidish Yiddish.

6. Fascinating! Can you tell us more about this individual?

7. Does anyone remember Andre in Crown Heights who worked in the ice cream store & spoke a beautiful Hebrew? So a goy speaks Yiddish. I don’t see why it’s newsworthy, unless it’s about content.

8. Not everyone who speaks English is an Englishman. In Europe many people speak more than one language. What is so surprising that not a Jew learned Yiddish? Why not surprising that some american born Chassidim do not speak English?

9. hysterical, and he even has the motions down pat!

10. This video is amazing and very entertaining. It is however also dangerous how a non-Jew cant speak Chasiddik Yiddish so well. Maybe he is really a Yid but does not know it. This is the first time I have seen this and it is a bit unsettling.

11. Or, possibly, a Jew posing as a non-Jew.

12. Halevai some of our own children would speak as well as he does! 🙂

13. Yawn. The NK also speak Yiddish. This isn’t news.

14. Did you hear the Jew that can sound like a drunk sailor or an anti Semite ?

15. A non-Jew who speaks Yiddish may be rare, but a few of them do it every single day on 42nd Street, at Fiddler Afn Dakh. It is winning major awards. Maybe some women should go see it and enjoy it.

16. I think the correct label is “Hungarian Yiddish”. Definitely not a Galicianer or Litvisheh Yiddish.

17. Man walks into a kosher deli & hears a Chinese waiter speaking a perfect Yiddish.
    Flabbergasted, he inquires of the owner “where did you find a Chinaman
    that speaks such a Heimished Yiddish ” ??
    Shah, says the owner, “he thinks I’m teaching him English”.

18. In prewar Europe MANY goyim (who lived in towns with many Jews) were able to have conversations in Yiddish.

19. Why does the guy off camera that some people break their teeth on yiddish. I have heard more ba’alei mussaf break their teeth on hebrew.

20. It’s not Chassidish Yiddish either. Chassidus started in Russia and Lita. The Mezritcher Maggid and most of his talmidim spoke what you call a “Litvisher Yiddish.” None of them were Hungarian. Some were Polish, admittedly.

21. He sounds like an OTD Yid.

22. This is a put on job; that guy is definitely a Yid.

23. Love this guy! So cool! I wish I spoke a Yiddish like that.

    It’s been over 15 years since I moved out of BP so I don’t get to speak it too often. My children don’t know yiddish at all. 🙁

24. whats the chiddush walk into any big chassidishe bais medrash the janitors all speak fluent yiddish

25. The whole time i am thinking, yeah, a fine Hungarian Yiddish, but i am picking up that clipped German pronunciation all through. Then at the end he said his father speaks German and he 1st picked up some German from his father. Hah! 2 points for me!
    Anyway, now he can run for office 😉

26. Lol these posters trying to bring down proofs about Chassidishe chavarah who have apparently never met any real chassidim.

27. Search on youtube James Cagney yiddish. He was the biggest actor of his day. He grew up on the LES and spoke perfect yiddish.