[HN Gopher] The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once...
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       The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-11-20 16:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | paganel wrote:
       | I sincerely hope that this will also happen to Yiddish theatre
       | [1], I am not Jewish but I live in a city (Bucharest) with a
       | strong Yiddish cultural presence in the past and all that looks
       | like it happened in another era. I know that the Holocaust is
       | obviously the most to blame for this, but I also think the state
       | of Israel could (and probably should) have done more to preserve
       | the Yiddish culture in modern times, it looks like they decided
       | to throw it all under the rug and focus in reviving Hebrew.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_theatre
        
         | neutronicus wrote:
         | In the early days of Israel, my wife's Yiddish-speaking
         | forebears actively avoided passing it down
         | 
         | It was, to them, a sort of gesture of commitment to a new (old)
         | beginning
        
         | wolverine876 wrote:
         | I don't know the Israeli government's reasoning, but my
         | impression is that Yiddish was spoken by only one region of
         | Jewish people, Eastern Europe.
        
           | Bayart wrote:
           | Before WW2 that was two-thirds of the Jews globally.
        
         | bloak wrote:
         | The situation of Cornish is rather different from the situation
         | of Yiddish. Cornish entirely disappeared as a native language
         | for about 200 years and the surviving literature, mostly from
         | the 15th/16th century, was so meagre that many common words had
         | to be reconstructed by comparison with related languages
         | because they didn't happen to appear in the written record. And
         | yet they now have (a few) native speakers again. Quite a story,
         | really. Of course you can read all about it in Wikipedia:
         | https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernowek
        
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