discovering yiddish

last night i went to see what i had misinterpreted as a klezmer concert, and was instead much more: a klezmer trio, yes, but playing along with a yiddish storyteller, a little lovely man from new york telling the most funny stories...
and the greatest thing of all is that yiddish is perfectly understandable once you are just a bit familiar with german: you just need to adjust your ears and apply a filter to most vowels and you're done, great! and sounds so nice!

PESAKH FISZMAN (New York) und A TICKLE IN THE HEART Swing & Klezmer Trio Köln

and now i really want to go to new york and find people who still speak yiddish and listen to their stories too... or maybe for a start just take a look at this book