Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond in addition to being used daily within Hasidic communities.

Yiddish Lives On explores the continuity of the language in the hands of a diverse group of native, he...