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Devotees Fight to Save Yiddish Language Across Ages
Michael Tarm, curio Goldberg and Jason Rubin bridge an 82 year age gap in a bid to preserve Yiddish once spoken by millions. They recount Chicago’s decline from 200,000 speakers to about 5,000 locally and note Hasidic communities keeping the tongue alive yet isolated from secular Yiddish culture.
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Curiaco
Itche Goldberg
Jason Rubin
Goldberg
Rubin
New York
Jake Morowitz
Board of Trade
Chicago
Maxwell Street
University of Illinois
Morowitz
Yivo Society
Camel Pom UR
Stf
Meir Simcha Singer
Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel