| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Yiddish a shande is this, also a TV show created by a Shonda, & a shande far di goyim is one in front of the whole world a scandal |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: From the Yiddish, it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality schmaltz |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | FROM RIDICULOUS TO SUBLIME $600: From the Yiddish, it means to carry or haul, or to move at a tediously slow pace schlep |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $1200: This Yiddish adjective means plumply voluptuous zaftig |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FOODSTOCK $400: The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all Crosby, Stills, Nosh & Young |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | Ps OUT! $600: Cut all 3 Ps from a flower of remembrance to get this Yiddish interjection oy (from poppy) |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LANGUAGES $800: Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote the novel "Meshugah" in this language Yiddish |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | MANDY PATINKIN $800: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) In the 1990s, I did an album & concert of traditional & non-traditional songs called "Mamaloshen", which means "mother tongue" in this language of some of my ancestors Yiddish |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | YIDDISHISMS $1200: It's the Yiddish equivalent of a knickknack a tchotchke |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | YIDDISHISMS $2000: In New York City's Garment District, you'd find lots of people working in this "business", Yiddish for rag schmatta |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game kibbitzing |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | 3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS $1600: From Yiddish, it means to make small talk or chat someone up to schmooze |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FOR NAUGHT $1000: Yiddish for "goat droppings" morphed into this word for "b"arely anything bupkes |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Borrowed from Yiddish, it's the helping of food being added here a schmear |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $400: David Moishele is an aging wealthy merchant with problematic children in the 1892 play "The Yiddish" this Shakespeare tragedy King Lear |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $1200: Yiddish theater's beginnings are associated with this Jewish holiday involving dressing up in costume Purim |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $1600: The play "Chantzhe in Amerika" is about a woman wanting to learn this modern skill; "How I Learned to" do it is a non-Yiddish play drive |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $2000: To Marlon Brando, "Stella" also meant this woman from a Yiddish theater dynasty, the teacher who changed his life Stella Adler |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $2,400 (Daily Double): A surprise New York hit in 2018 was a Yiddish-language "Fiddler on the Roof"; this song becomes "Ven Ikh Bin A Rotshild" "If I Were A Rich Man" |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | YOU MAKE ME FEEL $400: The Yiddish word naches means "joy", usually from the achievements of these relatives children |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS $800: Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish oy vey |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BEYOND ME $200: From the Yiddish, it's a word for a decent chap a mensch |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $200: Michael Chabon's novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" has this country collapsing in 1948 & refugees moving to Sitka, Alaska Israel |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $600: Leo Rosten brought readers "The New Joys of" this language, including words like kvell & kvetch Yiddish |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $200: There's no guilt in knowing that "gelt" is this; you'll receive some with a correct response money |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $400: Sometimes in the middle of the night I'll head to the kitchen & do some of this, from the Yiddish for "snacking" noshing |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $600: This verb means to haul or move with effort to schlep |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $800: The opening to "Laverne & Shirley" used these 2 Yiddish words, one meaning an oaf, the other, an unlucky person schlemiel & schlimazel |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $1000: This word for cheap & shoddily made goods now usually refers to cheap or shoddily made entertainment schlock |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Excessive sentimentality or chicken fat--this Yiddish word means both schmaltz |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | IT ALL STARTS WITH A GREEK LETTER $200: Khof, lamed, mem & nun are part of the Yiddish one alphabet |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $1200: 1995 winner "Mazel" takes its title from the word for luck in this language written in Hebrew letters Yiddish |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | BORROWED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES $2000: From Yiddish, for "juicy", this end-of-the-alphabet word means pleasingly plump or buxom zaftig |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Oy, you're so clumsy--in fact, you're this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning "wooden beam" a klutz |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $800: In 2018 "Fiddler on the Roof" was staged in NYC in this language of Sholem Alechiem's original stories Yiddish |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | MOOLAH $800: This bill is sometimes called a fin, from finf, the Yiddish word for its numerical value five |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $200: Bubbe refers to this member of the family, often quick with a treat the grandmother |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $400: To kvetch is to do this, possibly because your knish is too dry to complain |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $600: One definition of this trait involves a man who kills his parents & then begs the mercy of the court as he's an orphan chutzpah |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $800: To do this is to mingle & make chit-chat; to do it (to) someone is to sweet-talk him to schmooze |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $1000: Spritz, "to spray", rhymes with this similar word for to sweat, like one does in a steam bath to schvitz |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: It's worth 23, it's from Yiddish meaning "dirt" or "filth" & you'e got a little on your shoe schmutz |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The parody this language "With Dick and Jane" explains words like plotz, shnorrer & ibbledick Yiddish |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAGELS $1000: The cream cheese practically spreads itself if it's this, from the Yiddish for "grease" schmear |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | LAST "-IEL" $1600: Yiddish word for a born loser a schlemiel |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | THE LITERATURE OF ISRAEL $2000: Aharon Megged's "Foiglman" looks at the conflicts between fathers & sons, Israel & the Diaspora & these 2 languages Hebrew and Yiddish |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | EAT THIS VERB $1200: Enjoy a snack, Yiddish style nosh |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | IF THEY MARRIED $1200: The union of 2 Smiths, the Colts lineman & the "On Beauty" novelist, would get this Yiddish pair of grandparents Bubba & Zadie |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | LANGUAGES $600: On the dance floor I'm a klutz, from a word meaning "wooden block" in this Germanic language Yiddish |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | A PETITE DEJEUNER $200: From the Yiddish for "ring" or "bracelet" comes the name of this chewy breakfast item a bagel |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM" $1200: This Yiddish word means "to gossip idly" schmooze |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ZED'S DEAD, BABY $1600: Oy, I could just take the "Z" off the end of a word from Yiddish meaning "to burst" & get the story of a book or movie plotz & plot |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | LONG 1-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: 9 letters: From Yiddish, how we lugged that suitcase upstairs schlepped |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "Z" WORDS $1600: This Yiddish adjective meaning plumply voluptuous zaftig |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Yiddish a shvitz is a sauna or steam bath; to shvitz is this, what you do in those sweat |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | "EBB" & "FLO" $1600: It's from the Yiddish for a luckless sap a nebbish |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NAME CALLING $1600: Call someone a schlimazel or this similar Yiddish word; they both mean "inept" & "unlucky" a schlemiel |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $1200: Michael Chabon:
"The ____ Policemen's Union" (oy!) Yiddish |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GREEK LETTERS TODAY $800: This letter also means "So what?" in Yiddish nu |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FROM THE... $800: Yiddish, it means gall, audacity or nerve; you've got a lot of it, pal! chutzpah |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $2000: This Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" was translated into English in 1953 Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: Yiddish expression of dismay oy |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: From Yiddish, it's a clumsy person klutz |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: This type of fish is not a separate species but a Jewish delicacy whose name is Yiddish for "stuffed fish" gefilte fish |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | LANGUAGES BY ANY OTHER NAME $1000: Judeo-German Yiddish |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PUP FICTION $1200: This Yiddish author wrote "Rabchik, a Jewish Dog", or as we like to call it, "Piddler on the Rug" Sholom Aleichem |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | LANGUAGES IN THE USA $800: Oy! U.S. home speakers of this language dropped by 50% between 1980 & 2010, to around 150,000 Yiddish |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | "G" PLUS 3 $1200: For Hanukkah your grandmother might give you a little this, Yiddish for "money" gelt |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GIVING US THE TIME OF DAY $2000: Elie Wiesel first wrote this Holocaust memoir in Yiddish as "And the World Has Remained Silent" Night |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | LANGUAGES & DIALECTS $600: If you kibitz in this language, you should know it's also called Judeo-German Yiddish |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | RHYME QUICK $1200: Yiddish for a comic's act schtick |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $1600: Also meaning a dopey person, it's from the Yiddish for "to haul", as in "for this I ____ed those books all the way here?" schlep |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | G TO H $800: From the Yiddish for "lapse", it's a minor malfunction, often of a computer a glitch |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ADLER-TIZING $800: This woman! This woman! The daughter of Yiddish actors, she taught Marlon Brando "The Method" Stella Adler |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | CHESS ME, YOU FOOL! $600: To give unwanted advice about another player's game is to do this, a Yiddish term for offering intrusive commentary kibbitz |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | ORANGE YOU HUNGRY? $2000: In Yiddish tsorres (trouble) should not be confused with tsimmes, a stew containing mern, these veggies carrots |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A DISH OF YIDDISH $200: Hand me the kreplach: to nosh is to do this to eat |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A DISH OF YIDDISH $400: Congratulations! This 2-word phrase used to offer congratulations means "good luck" in Yiddish mazel tov |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A DISH OF YIDDISH $600: You've got this word meaning guts, nerve or brashness chutzpah |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A DISH OF YIDDISH $800: 6 letters in English, it means nothing, nada, zip, zero bubkes |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A DISH OF YIDDISH $1000: You'd have to be this not to know that meshugga means this in Yiddish crazy |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | TRANSLATION EXERCISES $400: Yiddish to French:
The polite "a sheynem dank" merci beaucoup |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | "Y"s UP $800: If I'm kibbitzing or kvetching & saying things that are just plain schmaltzy, I'm using words from this language Yiddish |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | WRITING FUNNY $2000: Peace be with you! 2009 was the 150th birthday of this great Yiddish comic writer Sholom Aleichem |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "Y" ASK $400: It's a Germanic language with a mixture of Hebrew vocabulary Yiddish |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | "B" KEEPING $400: If you're pondering your pupik, you're staring at this body part, for which pupik is the Yiddish word bellybutton |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | REAL "PA"s $600: This film, theater & "Criminal Minds" actor is also an interpreter of song standards, sometimes in Yiddish Mandy Patinkin |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FROM THE YIDDI"SCH" $2000: "The whole" this is the Yiddish-derived version of another culture's "the whole enchilada" the whole schmear |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | BEEFEATER $2000: This dry-cured, smoked deli meat with a Yiddish name can be made from brisket or round pastrami |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | NAME CALLING $800: You keep dropping things! Oy, you're such a this, Yiddish for "wooden block" a klutz |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | EPIGRAPHS $800: "The heart is half a prophet", Philip Roth's epigraph to "Goodbye, Columbus", is a proverb from this language Yiddish |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | FUNNY-SOUNDING FOOD $1000: From Yiddish for "stuffed", this dish is small pieces of whitefish, carp or pike mixed with seasonings gefilte fish |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1978:
This Yiddish tale-teller Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Yiddish for a "gossipy woman", it's derived from a woman's name a yenta |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | "Z" END $800: The name of this, a thin pancake filled with cheese or fruit, is from the Yiddish a blintz |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | "LEP"RECHAUN $400: This Yiddish word means "to lug" or "to move in a tedious fashion" schlep |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | "GRAND" PRIX $800: In Yiddish bubbie is this relative grandmother |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $1200: A guy looking over a game making annoying suggestions is doing this, from a Yiddish word kibitz |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | COMMUNITIES $1600: Anatevka in "Fiddler on the Roof" is this, a Yiddish word for a small Jewish village a shtetl |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | A FOOD ATTITUDE $400: Describing food that is unclean, "treyf" is the Yiddish opposite of this term kosher |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | "N" THE KNOW $400: Derived from Yiddish, it means to snack, or the snack itself nosh |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | DOUBLE "D"s $400: If someone wishes you "zay gezundt", he's blessing you in this language Yiddish |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | AUTHORS $1200: The Yiddish greeting for "peace be with you" gave Solomon Rabinowitz this pen name Sholom Aleichem |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | COMEDY CENTRAL $800: On "Coffee Talk", on "SNL", Linda Richman (this man in drag) would get "farklempt" ("choked up" in Yiddish) Mike Myers |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | "W"RITERS $1600: This Holocaust survivor's semi-autobiographical first book was published in Yiddish in 1956 Elie Wiesel |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | FROM WHAT LANGUAGE $800: To kvell Yiddish |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | "Z" END $200: An instructional book is "Juggling for the Complete" one of these, a word from Yiddish meaning "clumsy person" Klutz |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | I'M "L__X" $800: From Middle High German, this Yiddish word means "salmon" lox |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | ENDS IN "CH" $1000: Derived from Yiddish, it means to complain, with a little whining thrown in for good measure kvetch |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | "ARF" $1000: From the Yiddish, it's a noodle dough in small granules farfel |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | SUFFIXES $2,000 (Daily Double): From Yiddish, this suffix identifies people who support a cause such as peace -nik |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: It's used to express dismay or pain, especially in Yiddish oy |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | WORDS FROM OTHER LANGUAGES $800: (Hi, I'm Alan Dershowitz.) This title of a book of mine is a Yiddish term for nerve or effrontery Chutzpah |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | YIDDISH WORDS $600: Traditionally, a Jew might daven, do this, 3 times a day; a Muslim does it 5 times a day pray |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | YIDDISH WORDS $800: A Yiddish art critic might describe Rubens' women as this, meaning "plump" zaftig |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | YIDDISH WORDS $1000: To answer the question asked in song by Linda Ronstadt, it's Yiddish for "So?" or "Well?" What's nu? |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | PUDDING $1000: It's a Yiddish word for noodle pudding Kugel |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | CREAM CHEESE $500: Yiddish term for a thin pancake folded around a filling of cottage & cream cheese blintz |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Yiddish for "a gossipy woman", it's derived from a woman's name Yenta |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: From Yiddish, it can mean liquid chicken fat or a sappy, sentimental story schmaltz |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | SHORT STORIES $800: Saul Bellow was responsible for translating this Yiddish writer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" into English Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | TELL ME "Y" $200: "Meshugge" means crazy in this language of Europe's Ashkenazic Jews Yiddish |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "The Magician of Lublin", by this Yiddish language Nobel Prize winner, is set in his native Poland Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | ON THE DELI TRAY $400: Look for rye bread on the tray near this cured beef cold-cut with a name from the Yiddish pastrami |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: This Yiddish word can mean to lug a load, or to drag oneself Schlep |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | "N" THE DICTIONARY $200: This term for a between-meal snack comes from Yiddish nosh |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH $200: This word derived from "nose" means the projecting spout of a hose Nozzle |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH $400: Ground dry dog food, or what you do to prepare it kibble |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH $600: FM radio broadcasts at 88 to 108 of these units, each one equal to 1 million cycles per second megahertz |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH $800: 2-word term for a woven container capable of holding a 4-peck measure bushel basket |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | SOUNDS LIKE YIDDISH $1000: It means improbable, remotely linked or perhaps brought from a great distance by Rover farfetched |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | 20th CENTURY SLANG $600: A shmatte in Yiddish, it meant "to dance" early in the century & "to make fun of" in the '20s & '90s Rag |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | LANGUAGE $500: All the words in our Webster's Collegiate Dict. that begin with "sht" are borrowed from this language Yiddish |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | LOANWORDS $400: Body part terms schnozzle & tuchis come from the body of words in this language Yiddish |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | WORD ORIGINS $400: From Yiddish, for a wooden beam, it describes a person so clumsy he might bump into one Klutz |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | "ITZ" AT THE END $1000: Synonymous with "meddle" or "snoop", this Yiddish word means to offer unsolicited advice kibitz |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | SHORT STORIES $1000: Saul Bellow translated this writer's Yiddish short story, "Gimpel The Fool" into English Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | EDUCATORS $200: Author & scholar Ruth R. Wisse is the 1st person to teach Yiddish literature at the Cambridge, Mass. university Harvard |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | LANGUAGES $400: This language whose name means "Jewish" arose between the 9th & 12th centuries in southwestern Germany Yiddish |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: Meaning shapely or desirably plump, the word "zaftig" comes from this language Yiddish |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | GREETINGS $500: This Yiddish writer's pen name was a traditional greeting meaning "peace be with you" Sholem Aleichem |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | DOUBLE D WORDS $300: In 1908 it was proclaimed a national Jewish language Yiddish |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | LANGUAGES $400: Schlemiel & Schlimazel are words borrowed from this language Yiddish |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | LANGUAGES $1000: The novel "Enemies: A Love Story" was originally written in this Germanic language Yiddish |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: In the 1880s Eliezer Ben-Yehuda founded a magazine dedicated to reviving this as a living language Hebrew |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | "X", "Y", "Z" $400: If you talk about schlepping somewhere for a little nosh, you're using words from this language Yiddish |
| #2262, aired 1994-06-07 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: When founded in 1897, the Jewish Daily Forward was published in this language, not Hebrew Yiddish |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | LANGUAGES $800: While Yiddish has Germanic origins, Ladino is a Jewish language derived from this Spanish |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | LANGUAGES $800: This language has enriched English with such expressions as "farblondjet", "schmooze" & "maven" Yiddish |
| #2037, aired 1993-06-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's Yiddish for a light snack a nosh |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | FOREIGN PHRASES $400: Congratulations if you know this 2-word Yiddish phrase for congratulations mazel tov |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | LITERATURE $1000: "Enemies, A Love Story" was one of many Yiddish stories that earned this author a 1978 Nobel Prize (Isaac Bashevis) Singer |
| #1723, aired 1992-02-12 | ISRAEL $1000: These 3 languages appear on Israeli coins & postage stamps English, Hebrew & Arabic |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | LANGUAGES $200: Though written in Hebrew letters, Yiddish is usually considered a variant of this language German |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If you can tell me what "gelt" means in Yiddish, you'll earn some right now money |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | ODDS & ENDS $400: Yiddish for "stuffed fish", it's a mixture of ground fish, eggs, matzo meal & seasonings gefilte fish |
| #1598, aired 1991-07-10 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: You don't have to speak Yiddish to know it means "a gossipy woman" a yenta |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Yiddish for "piece", it's a performer's piece of business shtick |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The pen name of Yiddish author Solomon Rabinowitz or a Yiddish way to say, "Peace be with you" Sholem Aleichem |
| #1461, aired 1990-12-31 | LANGUAGES $300: Isaac Bashevis Singer was the first Nobel Prize-winning author to write in this Jewish language Yiddish |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | LANGUAGES $800: You don't have to be crazy to know "meshugga" is from this language Yiddish |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | VOCABULARY $400: Yiddish verb & noun for snack; it derived from Old High German "nascon", to gnaw a nosh |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $600: Written in Yiddish, his novels such as "The Family Moskat" are often set in Poland Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | AMERICAN WRITERS $600: The work of this Yiddish writer was often compared to that of Mark Twain Sholem Aleichem |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | FOOD & DRINK $800: The name of this meat is Yiddish from the Romanian word for "to preserve" pastrami |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | STARTS WITH "K" $800: In Yiddish slang, it's a constant annoying complainer kvetcher |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | WISE GUYS $200: Reb, the Yiddish for Mr., comes from this Hebrew word for "my master" rabbi |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | BEGINNINGS $200: Language that had its beginnings in the 10th c. when the Jews were forced from northern France Yiddish |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | HATS $100: Yiddish term for the skull cap won by orthodox male Jews a yarmulke |
| #660, aired 1987-06-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: Elie Wiesel writes his books in this language; his wife translates them into English French |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | LANGUAGES $600: Israel's official languages are Hebrew & this Arabic |
| #569, aired 1987-02-12 | LANGUAGES $800: While Yiddish is derived mainly from German, Ladino is a Jewish language based on this one Spanish |
| #563, aired 1987-02-04 | FOREIGN WORDS $200: Hybrid Yiddish word combining Hebrew for "luck", "mazal", & Germanic for "bad", "schlimm" schlemazel |
| #528, aired 1986-12-17 | LANGUAGES $600: The film "Shoah" credits translation of this language to "Mrs. Apfelbaum" Yiddish |
| #491, aired 1986-10-27 | LANGUAGES $300: Proper Yiddish is written in characters of this language Hebrew |
| #483, aired 1986-10-15 | ODD COUPLES $1000: A star of "Fame" & "Footloose" & a Nobel Prize winning Yiddish author Laurie Singer & Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | FOREIGN PHRASES $400: "Flat vi a latke" means this flat in Yiddish as a pancake |
| #437, aired 1986-05-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: A NYC 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater is where this star of "The Great Escape" made his great debut Steve McQueen |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | FOOD & DRINK $400: You could call this food Yiddish won ton kreplach |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | WORD ORIGINS $400: From German "schlag", Yiddish word for merchandise of inferior quality schlock |
| #187, aired 1985-05-28 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: In Spanish, it's "cara", in Yiddish, "punim", in French, "visage" face |
| #150, aired 1985-04-05 | THE BIBLE $600: From Prince Shelumiel, said to have lost battles while others won, it's Yiddish for "born loser" a schlemiel |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | LANGUAGES $600: International Jewish language derived from High German Yiddish |
| #43, aired 1984-11-07 | FOREIGN PHRASES $200: Yiddish for good luck or congratulations mazel tov |
| #12, aired 1984-09-25 | FOODS $200: Deli delight, from Yiddish for Ring a bagel |
