Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

    One of my favorite Yiddish language stories has to do with an item 
listed in an Cambridge, MA. Adult Education brochure under the heading of 
Yiddish class: Come learn a lively dying language.  You think they knew that 
they were a candidate for the Jay Leno award with that one?
   Trudi the G
>From: "Kame'a Media" <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
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>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:24:27 -0400
>
>
>
>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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