RE: yiddish language decline?

[dan katzir <love...>]

Who is this Japanese expert and how could he be located ?

Also where does he live?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org] On Behalf Of Trudi Goodman
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:38 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: yiddish language decline?

 

  <http://graphics.hotmail.com/emsmile.gif> I've been hearing this type
of stuff for over 40 years now. As long as people love the language and
use it, it will never die! Personally, I can't worry myself about
doomsayers...life is too short. P.S. If my Sheygetzer Ex- Husband could
learn Yiddish...anyone can. He enjoyed every moment of it too. One of
the most reknowned experts on Yiddish dialect is a Japanese
gentleman...who isn't Jewish and who learned Yiddish for the love of it!

    Zay Gezunt!

     Trudi the G

 

>From: Lori Cahan-Simon 

>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org 

>To: World music from a Jewish slant 

>Subject: Re: yiddish language decline? 

>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:15:34 -0500 

> 

>Mazl tov, Brian, on your engagement. Nu, who is going to play for 

>the 

>khasene? :-) 

> 

>Brian Dichter wrote: 

> 

>>on 3/21/02 8:00 PM, Mel Korn at mkorn (at) rogers(dot)com wrote: 

>> 

>>>How ironic that I take such pride today in my ability to 

>>>communicate in 

>>>Yiddish, and that my personal musical education began in my 40's 

>>>as a quest 

>>>to learn to play Klezmer music, which I grew to love. However I 

>>>rarely find 

>>>contemporaries with whom I can converse in Yiddish, or who share 

>>>my passion 

>>>for Jewish music. My kids and their contemporaries look at me as 

>>>if I were 

>>>an alien when I play any kind of Jewish music, be it the music of 

>>>my parents 

>>>generation, or new Klezmer recordings (we won't even mention the 

>>>reaction I 

>>>got the one time I played one of John Zorn's recordings). Coltrane 

>>>or Bird 

>>>yes...Andy Statman or The Flying Bulgurs no. So for me Yiddish is 

>>>somewhat 

>>>alive...for my kids it will be some cultural relic related to 

>>>their 

>>>heritage. 

>>> 

>>I was hoping to convince my fiancee to learn Yiddish with me. But, 

>>I'm 

>>already a "freak" due to the endless hours of Klezmer I blast all 

>>the time 

>>at home. 8) Liz won't sit still for John Zorn but, fortunately, she 

>>likes 

>>Andy Statman AND Coltrane. 

>> 

>>I guess taking a course would be helpful as long as it focuses on 

>>conversation too. 

>> 

>>brian 

>> 

>> 

>> 

> 

>-- 

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> 

> 

> 




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