NYC versus J-Town

September 16, 2007 - 6:30 AM by

Somebody over at Jewlicious was in Manhattan smack dab before the Jewish New Year and while hailing a cab on the Upper East Side en route to synagogue had the inkling: Hey, this part of town – and Upper West, for that matter – is a whole lot like Jerusalem! So many Jews all clamoring for cabs to get to services.

And so commenced the Which is More Jewish? Jewlicious NYC versus J-Town blog entry. A snippet:

Language: Hebrew vs. English/Yiddish/Ladino/Hebrew/Spanish/etc.
Now I know, Hebrew is clearly Jewish, but the fact that every person in New York knows the words oy vey, shmuck, shmegegee, tuchis, mazel tov, and knish, means that Jewish culture has actually managed to pervade almost every aspect of life in this almost-ghetto island found in the diaspora. So I get it: Hebrew is Jewish and the national language of Israel, but everybody knows some Yiddish….I think it’s a tie.

Head on over to the site to read the rest and leave a comment. Which shall it be…?

Tags: • Category: Blogging, History and Culture, Holidays, Immigrant Moments 

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