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The exhibition traces a century of American comics, starting with the basic three-box strips in newspapers, often in “Yinglish”, a mix of Yiddish and English.

We speak what we call Yinglish, a combination of Yiddish and English and Talmudic ancient Hebrew.

For years, Ehrlich has made a circuit of yeshivas in Israel’s religious cities, like Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, offering his Yinglish patter to pious students in exchange for a few shekels.

Like everyone in the gym, they speak a mixture of Spanish and English - or "Yinglish," as Alvarez calls it - and Alvarez shows the same exuberance during practice that's become his trademark on the competition floor.