{"id":51947,"date":"2019-11-29T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T22:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=51947"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T22:32:55","slug":"seth-rogen-to-be-honored-for-promoting-jewish-identity-and-yiddish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/seth-rogen-to-be-honored-for-promoting-jewish-identity-and-yiddish\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen to be honored for promoting Jewish identity and Yiddish"},"content":{"rendered":"

(JTA) \u2014 Seth Rogen, who is studying Yiddish for a role, will be honored by a group devoted to promoting that language.<\/p>\n

The Workmen\u2019s Circle, a group whose mission is to strengthen Jewish identity based on social justice and Yiddish language, will honor Rogen, 37, in a ceremony Monday in Manhattan, the New Jersey Jewish News reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s always been just a very big part of my life,\u201d the Jewish actor and filmmaker said of his Jewish identity in an interview with NJJN. \u201cThe first jokes I ever wrote were about it; it was a very inherent part of who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogen is studying Yiddish for his role in \u201cAmerican Pickle,\u201d a film based on a short story by Simon Rich in which the main character, Herschel Greenbaum, a Yiddish speaker who immigrated in 1918 to the United States, emerges fully preserved from a pickle barrel a century later to meet his great-grandson in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Rogen and his father, Mark, who worked for Workmen\u2019s Circle in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, will receive the Generation to Generation Activism Award at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Rogen attended a Habonim Dror summer camp and a Talmud Torah elementary school, which provided the material for his first stand-up sets. He headlined a Workmen\u2019s Circle event in Los Angeles when his father worked there.<\/p>\n

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