Re: Nu?
- From: micha@xxxxxxxxxxx (Micha Berger)
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:53:57 +0000 (UTC)
Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:05:49 +0000 (UTC), micha@xxxxxxxxxxx (Micha
Berger) wrote:
Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Even though Yiddish is pretty much a dead language - the lingua franca
(or rather judaica) of a handful of Holocaust survivors?
And of many Chassidim, many with family sizes of 6 children and up...
Even in Israel? I thought that (the language, not the 6 children) was
a diaspora thing.
It would mean Yiddish isn't a dying language even if the phenomenon
weren't in Israel.
But it is. I often post the following irony.
I am what they call a Zionist. I march with my kids' school at the
Salute to Israel Parade down 5th Ave in Manhattan. One year, I did the
route twice -- once with one school, than ran back to the beginning in
time to do the route with another school. I lobby for Israeli causes,
attend rallies, etc...
My first cousin is what they call an anti-Zionist. He moved from Silver
Spring Maryland, a bastion of MO Zionism, to a community where his
daughter studied in Yiddish, Herzl is disdained, and the State of Israel
considered one of the major roadblocks in the coming of the messiah.
Did I mention he lives in Ramot Polin, Jerusalem?
It's an ironic world where the anti-Zionist is the one who made aliyah,
as opposed to the alleged Zionist who lives in Northern New Jersey.
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha
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