Re: yiddish language decline?

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Shirli Sieb" <sieb (at) sympatico(dot)ca>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: yiddish language decline?


> Tell that to my neighbours in Cote St Luc, a suburb of Montreal, with the
> largest per-capita population of Jews in North America.
>
> Montreal is a hive of Yiddish and Yiddishkeit, with a thriving Yiddish
> theatre and active Yiddish culture.  I learned Yiddish, not so much from
my
> parents, but from my friends and neighbours.  My "gang" in high-school
spoke
> Yiddish, and used Yiddish xpressions frequently. And this was a secular,
> public high-school!
>
> In fact,  today, it's actively being taught at one Jewish high-school,  in
> Montreal:  "Yiddish at Bialik"
> http://www.bialik.netaxis.qc.ca/yiddish/yiddish.htm
> Gib a keek.
>
> Ed Sieb
And in the US, English includes a number of words, adopted from Yiddish, but
that doesn't make Americans Yiddish speakers.

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