YIDDISH

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, July 14, 1977, PAGE 3

~ Colorful language dying out»

AVIV (Reuter) — . The Aidit language,

‘which united European’

Jewry for 1,000 a toda

appears destined out,

And ironically, ie death is

_ linked to-the establishment of the state of Israel,

t was the creation of

Israel in 1948 and its ‘adoption of biblical Hebrew a3 the country’s official ‘language’ that ~ doomed Yiddish, a mixture of old German and some Hebrew. pape creators of the Jewish ’ seoffed at Yiddish whic they described as a ‘ore nguage s lic of the historic disperse of the Jews, ringing niemories of’ the ghettoes and petsecution” - The first Israeli: leaders

said Hebrew, the language -

of the ancient Israelites, should be ‘revived as the tongue of of the modern Jewish

Defenders of Yiddish, which was once spoken by. il million people, deny it is a second-rate language and point to its being ranked in

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( GREARWATER, elena

— A properly planned allowance given to children in their formative years can help lead to financially solyent adulthood, sa

resident of a na Sonal

inancial , services organization based here.

“A child’s weekly allowance can be used as an important tool” successfully Fe a ere his adult life,”

: Bowler of Pioneer Western Corp. “The entire spectrum of money

‘saving, investing and budgeting—can be taught

through | that simple process.” . OFFERS RULES

Bowler .. offers these.

suggestions on allocating ’ the allowance:

—Determine actual. monetary needs.- Discuss those . Teeds with the youngsters. Make sure they fully understand why and how you have arrived at a specific sum.

—Promise this amount on a regular basis and keep that promise, or don’t promise it at all.

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international SLAIN IN HOLOCAUST

The major blow to Yiddish came during the Second World War when the Nazis European j six million

ews, mag them Yiddish speakers. bert at holocaust, which

ought European Jewry

the brink of extinction, also destroyed the cultural centre of Yiddish, which reached its peak - between the two world wars. Its rich and varied literature theatrical repertoire and 3 folklore had an independent vitality which were -the cultural mainstay of mil- lions.

The first non-religious culture of the Jewish people, Yiddish developed = in Germany but = spread eastwards with Jewish migrations several hundred years ago to Poland, Barepeea ssia and other Euro pean areas. While the anguage and grammar are adapted from old German, its alphabet is a Hebrew

ople who still are survivors

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of the war, now middle- ieee for whom ' the language re remains their only tie wi But thar ~whether in Israel, the United States or the Soviet Union,. generally reject Yiddish as. old-fashioned an ISRAEL BLAMED Yiddish supporters say Israel is responsible for this because the founders of the poung Jewish state, emselves from Yiddish-

speaking European homes, eliberately their mother tongues and

adopted Hebrew..

denounced -

bildren, .

Katan (Small-Heart), says Mordechai Zanin, editor of the only Yiddish-language newspaper in Israel.

Zanin accuses the Israeli leaders, particularly the country's founding father David Ben Gurion, of creating, a “cultural

CULTURALLY ARID x

“You cannot destroy “one culture and build another overnight," he said, ‘It is not like last year’s fashions- which have become outdated.”

He maintains that. Israel

‘is ‘culturally arid’ and that

a new culture has yet to

e desire to break with arise. :

the, past was go great that some Israeli leaders went to extremes and gah sugges ssing a law ramlate pe ae the hames of all well-known Jews, even those who had already died.

The Knesset (parliament) however threw out this suggestion, since it would have meant that the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, would have become known as Theodore Lev

SO GIVE YOUR KID A BUCK!

Allowances build character .

—Don’t puta dollar sign on achievement. Monetary rewards should not be associated with “good

behavior or good grades in _sehoo], Th

Is can lead to unnatural pressures for money—in some cases, i

can even be a cause of -

- By "all means, encourage the children to expenditures as well as th

as well as their income, This will act-as a

it directional signal for future

their .

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He also blames Israel for

the destruction of Yiddish in. |.

other countries. “They sent people from here to teach

Hebrew, a foreign language, . to Jews ai ant. they ce

closed down the. love Yiddish schools, the only ties the communities 8 had with Jewish culture." Israeli educationiats reply that Zanin ignores the fact that Yiddish was bound to

‘die once the insular “shtetl"

(village) life of East

budgeting andnsavings.

—Do not .be overly concerned with what other parents in the neighborhood are giving their children, Do not permit allowances to . “follow the Joneses,”

THURSDAY

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European Jewry was destroyed and the remain-

ing

Jews

throughout the world.

“He lives in a past ‘which:

cannot be revived,” David Cohen, a Hebrew teacher,

dispersed

said

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