This week on Unorthodox, we’re partying like it’s 5777.
Our Jewish guest is Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, co-author of the new Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, an 850-page volume that chronicles and adapts the Eastern European language for the modern world. She tells us about growing up speaking only Yiddish at home (her father, Mordkhe Schaechter, is credited with the invention of modern Yiddish studies), and creating Yiddish words for things Isaac Bashevis Singer could never have imagined, like sexting.