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The Yiddish and Ashkenazic pronunciation of mazel has the stress on the first syllable while the Modern Hebrew word mazal has the stress on the last syllable. Mazel-tov is also used as a personal name. The phrase "mazel tov" is recorded as entering into American English from Yiddish in 1862, [2] pronounced / ˈ m ɑː z əl t ɒ v,-t ɒ f / MAH ...
Mazal tov / Mazel tov: מַזָּל טוֹב good luck/congratulations [maˈzal tov] [ˈmazəl tɔv] Hebrew/Yiddish Used to mean congratulations. Used in Hebrew (mazal tov) or Yiddish. Used on to indicate good luck has occurred, ex. birthday, bar mitzvah, a new job, or an engagement. [1]
Mazel-tov (Yiddish: מזל טוב, Yiddish: mazel tov; Russian title either «Мазлтов» or «Поздравляем», 1889), is a one-act Yiddish-language play by Sholem Aleichem. [1] The play focuses on the relationship between servants, the cook Beyle, and the upstairs rich, the Landlord.
Congratulations!, Op. 111) is a 1975 opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to his own Russian libretto after the Yiddish play Mazel Tov by Sholem Aleichem. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The plot follows closely the text of Aleichem's play, but emphasising the class conflict to placate the Soviet censor, for whom otherwise a Jewish topic may have proved problematic ...
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[10] [11] New settings of Yiddish poetry continue today as well including vayter un vayter (2012), a selection of Abraham Sutzkever poems set to music by Judith Shatin, and and all the days were purple (2017/2019), a song cycle including poetry in Yiddish by Anna Margolin, Abraham Sutzkever, Rachel Korn, and others by Alex Weiser which was ...
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