Re: yiddish language decline?

[Inna Gerlovina <innars...>]

As close as it gets - even 10 (11?)years ago there still existed a Jewish 
town in Ukraine, called Shargorod, 4000 people, where Yiddish was spoken on 
the streets (no subway, but other than that...). Next year it was 1000, soon 
it was gone (I might be a little off with dates and numbers, but exact 
information is available, I'm sure).
My personal most pleasant experiences included waking up to the sound of a 
casual phone conversation in Yiddish (1990, Vilno), not understanding a 
word, but basking in divine sounds.
Inna

P.S. For now, Montréal still sounds like a good place to live. What's the 
weather there?


>From: Ben Holmes <ben(dot)holmes (at) nyu(dot)edu
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: yiddish language decline?
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:45:17 -0500
>
>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
>


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