Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought

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Trudi Goodman wrote:

>    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.

Hi Trudi:

I was at a dinner party some years ago in Toronto,
where a Jewish woman told me: "Yiddish is a clown language."

For months afterwards, Fraidy and I would crack each other up with:
"Yiddish is a dying language" and
"Yiddish is a clown language"

(That's two, -- two -- two mints in one!)

Wolf

> 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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