Leonard Nimoy's Mother Tongue.

February 27, 2014 8:44 AM

Leonard Nimoy's Mameloshn: A Yiddish Story
posted by Wordwoman (7 comments total)

Wait...so it's not Vulcan?
posted by yoink at 8:56 AM on February 27, 2014

Thank you so much for posting this. Nimoy reminds me so much of my grandfather who also spent his first couple of years in Boston but moved to Boyle Heights (in Los Angeles) with his family when he was still a young child. I've always wished I spoke Yiddish fluently, as both sets of my grandparents did. On the very long list of things I might do one day, it is there, the mamaloshn, waiting.
posted by Sophie1 at 9:09 AM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

It's funny you should say that, Sophie1:

@TheRealNimoy: Any here want to make me their honorary grandfather consider it done. LLAP

posted by lumensimus at 9:11 AM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

I don't want to say that Nimoy was responsible for me quitting smoking (day 18) but his tweet about COPD was pretty influential.
posted by khaibit at 9:27 AM on February 27, 2014 [6 favorites]

After thirty some years (I don't recall exactly when I first saw Star Trek, which I watched religiously with my father and older brother, but it was certainly in my single digits) I would not think Leonard Nimoy could still make me love him even more but there he goes.
posted by nanojath at 11:19 AM on February 27, 2014

The other segments from this interview are also wonderful.

the religious origins of the Vulcan salute

the story of a neighborhood singing legend

working in Yiddish theater as the audience was dying off
posted by gimli at 12:08 PM on February 27, 2014

@TheRealNimoy: Any here want to make me their honorary grandfather consider it done. LLAP

! זיידע
posted by mikelieman at 3:21 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]