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Re: yiddish language decline?
- From: SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>
- Subject: Re: yiddish language decline?
- Date: Wed 20 Mar 2002 00.30 (GMT)
Of course, there's IB Singer's famous remark about there being a difference
between dead and dying. But on a more realistic plane, I think that
outside of the scattered populations that will continue to make a "living"
use of various forms of Yiddish, the language will soon become the secular
equivalent of Aramaic, a vast storehouse of Jewish culture in a "dead"
language inextricably bound to Jewish life.
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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
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