# Hebrew translation from a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871 "2022-09-20T03:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/1 "2022-09-20T03:16:08Z")
[Pic](https://imgur.com/a/QSl0b73) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/2 "2022-09-20T04:03:45Z")
not Hebrew It might be some form of Yiddish, but the language definitely has nothing to do with Hebrew. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/3 "2022-09-20T04:45:58Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/hKU01Is.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/hKU01Is.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/4 "2022-09-20T04:48:24Z")
Yiddish. I don’t speak it, but can see that the last words are “a guten tag” (good day). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/5 "2022-09-20T04:54:45Z")
Adding: FWIW, Google translates it as _How is Gisheptinur?_ _Sow the truth_ _Good as gold in the ground with the berries_ _A good day_ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/6 "2022-09-20T05:17:34Z")
What film? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/7 "2022-09-20T15:11:19Z")
Yeah, Yiddish makes more sense. The movie: [The Rag Man (1925\_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016258/reference/). You can see the exchange [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BWflsYHoU) starting at 14:35. \*Best known to my generation as the crazy man who lives in the abandoned house, who terrorizes the gang in the Our Gang short [Moan and Groan, Inc.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020179/reference/), who have come to dig for treasure rumored to be buried there. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/8 "2022-09-20T15:52:16Z")
I do not know a word of Yiddish, but we can try to do better than that. The first line, transliterated, is something like Wie is Geschäft… nur sagt[??] dem emeth [= truth in Hebrew] So, perhaps, something like “How is business? Now tell the truth.” next card: "gut wie Geld… in der Erde mit die [???] Good as money in the ground with the ??? [buyers?] final card: “A guten Tag” Good day! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hebrew-translation-from-a-movie/971871/9 "2022-09-20T16:11:06Z")
You’ve likely figured out the the Yiddish placards are immediately translated, though perhaps not idiomatically. I looked up “business” in Yiddish, and it’s געשעפט, so that makes sense as the root. Not sure about the gold/berries thing, but it sounds like it could be a pithy Yiddish saying.