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Forward
09-11-1998
Yiddish Camp

My grandmother studied Yiddish at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in the late 1890s, to help the immigrants pouring into New York City -- or so she claimed -- and indeed her Yiddish seemed to be restricted to jokes and the 50 Yiddish words everybody knows. And that was all the Yiddish I ever encountered. An uncle studied Yiddish in 1945, in order to work with the Joint Distribution Committee in the displaced persons' camps after the war, and his father had been a rabbi. And now I am studying Yiddish language and culture -- everybody is studying Yiddish, on ...

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