Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...
Read the original article in Yiddish here. Yiddish enthusiasts often use the term Yiddishland to describe their community of like-minded people. This Yiddishland isn’t a nation or physical location ...
Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...