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Who is Kuni Lemel? (Hebrew/Yiddish) | ||
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| Cheshire_Cat Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5310 days ago 17 posts - 23 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian Studies: Dari, Spanish, Arabic (Written), Norwegian, Mandarin, Mongolian, Estonian | Message 1 of 4 03 May 2010 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hope someone here can help me: A few weeks ago I visited Lodz (Poland) for a few days and one evening we ate at a Jewish restaurant. There they played some Yiddish music I really liked, so I asked for the name of the singer.
They told me, that his name was Mike Burstein and I bought a few songs online. In some of these songs he sings about a so called "Kuni Lemel". I tried to google it, but I found nothing useful in English or German. On youtube there were a few short films with that name in their titles, so maybe that's kind of a Jewish/Hebrew character from a famous movie or series? I'm just listening to some of those songs all the time and can't stop asking myself who or what that Kuni Lemel might be... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5813 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes  Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German | Message 2 of 4 14 May 2010 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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well you got it right :), Kuni Lemel is a character played by Mike Burstein in 3 80's movies of the same nature : 1. Two Kuni Lemel, 2. Kuni Lemel in Cairo and 3. Kuni Lemel in Tel-Aviv. The character of Kuni Lemel is of an american hassidic jew who is seemingly strict when it comes to religious matters but on the other hand, he's also very innocent, almost childlike, which makes him pretty funny.
The movies goes about all sorts of crazy-funny situations he randomly encounters accompanied by several musical parts (which are quite nice :). you could search youtube in hebrew to find several bits of his movies plus most of the musical parts just copy paste his name in hebrew which i'll give you here - "קונילמל" or "קוני למל". if you wish to know more about the movies, characters, hebrew or yiddish songs - i'll try my best to help. *it's kinda funny having someone interested in these specific movies* :P. Edited by laban on 14 May 2010 at 8:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yiddishlanguage Newbie United States conversatio Joined 4997 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 3 of 4 12 March 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Yiddish was the vernacular language of most Jews in Eastern and Central Europe prior to World War II. These days, it is spoken by descendants of these Jews living within the United states of america, Israel, and other parts on the world. Yiddish is currently making the most of a resurgence.
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| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4994 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 4 17 March 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged | ||
Luckly ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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