The Influence of Historical Events on Yiddish and Yiddish Literature with Boris Sandler (in Yiddish)
Among Yiddish’s greatest paradoxes is that the development of the language and its growth occurred precisely when European Jewry was forced into the walls and limits of ghettos, the Pale of Settlement, and shtetls — left without freedom and rights compared to other citizens. A concentrated population’s way of life stimulates them to speak in one national language. For European Jewry, that language was Yiddish.
Among Yiddish’s greatest paradoxes is that the development of the language and its growth occurred precisely when European Jewry was forced into the walls and limits of ghettos, the Pale of Settlement, and shtetls — left without freedom and rights compared to other citizens. A concentrated population’s way of life stimulates them to speak in one national language. For European Jewry, that language was Yiddish.
Among Yiddish’s greatest paradoxes is that the development of the language and its growth occurred precisely when European Jewry was forced into the walls and limits of ghettos, the Pale of Settlement, and shtetls — left without freedom and rights compared to other citizens. A concentrated population’s way of life stimulates them to speak in one national language. For European Jewry, that language was Yiddish.