aph-japan reblogged
“But in America what had been a mame-loshn (mother tongue) to millions of Ashkenazi Jews what had been a medium through which Jewish history, culture, politics, ethics were transmitted-had become a joke, a joke usually made by Jews, a joke now so Americanized it has become the property of the American mainstream.
And what is funnier than a Yiddish inflection? Yiddish is after all nothing more than a bunch of words like mishigas and kvetsh. What’s to teach? What’s to learn?
Because there is basically no knowledge of Yiddish culture as it was, others, I sense, think I am fabricating a drama when I draw attention to its crisis.”
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