RE: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   As for LA and Yiddishkeyt. They got it...never been to Santa Monica? I 
love Montreal and Rue St. Laurent, but you don't have the lock on Yiddish or 
keyt. As for the Israeli  seeming lack of consciousness about Yiddishkeyt, I 
always found that disturbing, especially years ago when an Israeli educated 
woman told me that Yiddish is the language of the oppressed. That was a 
prevalent idea for years in Israel. My response to her was that it was just 
too easy to dismiss Yiddish as that...after all it's been around a lot 
longer than the State of Israel.
     Trudi the G


>From: "Ed Sieb" <sieb (at) sympatico(dot)ca>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 01:36:50 -0400
>
>Lets' face one undeniable, and somewhat unfortunate fact --
>for many years, the Israeli cultural infrastructure has been hostile
>to Yiddish and Yiddishkeit in general. In an effort to wipe out the image
>of a "victim" and what they saw as the legacy of the Holocaust, the
>language  (and thus the culture) of European Jewry was suppressed
>if not outright denied in Israel.  In it's place a newer, bolder Israeli
>culture,
>with Hebrew  as the new mamaloshen would dominate.
>
>Today, Israelis, like everyone else in the world have discovered Klezmer,
>and with it,  they discovered an innate spark, a flame, that was never
>extinguished.
>All the Hebrew, and all the Sabra culture in the world will never suppress
>this spark,
>once the yiddisher neshomeh  has been awakened by Klezmer.
>IMHO, of course.
>
>LA, though.... (shudder)..... frankly, he's be better off in Montreal. More
>Yiddishkeit,
>and the film making is easier.
>
>Ed Sieb
>
>

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