yiddish language decline?

[Brian Dichter <dbrian...>]

Hi. Yesterday afternoon I heard a story on NPR (an introduction before the
Yiddish Radio Project that starts broadcasting today) about the decline of
Yiddish. A linguist (I forgot his name) stated that even though many
students are studying the language at universities around the planet (even
in Germany and Poland) and that there is additional interest attributed to
the growing popularity of klezmer music there is still such a decline in
yiddish usage that it's considered a dying language.

Does that sound about right?

I'm a bit surpised that it would be considered "dying" because there seems
to be so much conscientious effort towards preservation.

brian
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