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15/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 Extra - My Yiddisher Mother Tongue

David Schneider goes on a personal journey through Yiddish culture and language.

4 Extra Debut. Writer and comedian David Schneider takes a personal journey through the culture of the Yiddish language. With Michael Grade.

Writer and comedian David Schneider goes on a personal journey through Yiddish culture and language. 

Schneider, who first came to fame on The Day Today and I'm Alan Partridge, is the grandson of a Yiddish playwright and a Yiddish actress. He returns to Whitechapel and Vienna where his grandparents performed and considers the rich thousand-year history of the language. 

Contributors include Yiddish enthusiasts including Michael Grade and General Colin Powell, who picked up the language in his teens when he worked in a Jewish toy store in New York.

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