A New Context For Yiddish: Academics trying out a holistic approach to train scholars of the mama loshen

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: July 19, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Yiddish is the "mama loshen" to most Jews, the "mother tongue" spoken by generations of parents and grandparents. To David Roskies, Yiddish is also the language of his schooldays: the "lehrer loshen," or teacher language.

Raised in the 1950s in Montreal, Roskies attended one of a dozen secular schools where Yiddish was the language of instruction for much of the curriculum, from reading and grammar to Bible and history. Today, says Roskies, a professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, most students learn Yiddish as a "professorial language."

"In an academic ...

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