Re: yiddish language decline?

[Ben Holmes <ben.holmes...>]

Hi -
    I've been following the list for a couple weeks, but this is my first
intentional post. This link is to a Michael Chabon piece I think some people
might find interesting.
http://www.michaelchabon.com/yiddish.html
    In print, it had some great illustrations by Ben Katchor, but they
didn't make it into digital form.

- Ben
    

on 3/20/02 9:04 PM, Marvin at physchem (at) telocity(dot)com wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Dichter" <dbrian (at) enteract(dot)com>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:47 PM
> Subject: yiddish language decline?
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> 
>> 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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