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This Week in Jerusalem: Sounds better in Yiddish

Comedy program at Beit Avi Chai; Yiddish at the National Library.

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Sounds better in Yiddish Call it the renaissance of Yiddish, call it trendy – projects and events relating to the old Jewish language and its place in contemporary Israeli culture are becoming very popular. For example, at the National Library on the Givat Ram campus, there will be an evening entitled “Especially in the 21st Century.” There, rare books in Yiddish will be presented, such as the famous Worms Prayer Book, the oldest printed siddur.

Literature, theater, poetry, newspapers – Yiddish was the language of millions of Jews not only in Europe but also in North America and Israel. Today it is being rediscovered by many young people and is clearly on its way to becoming the next trend. A new joint project by the Israeli National Library and the National Center for Yiddish Books in the US, called Outwitting History – the Last-Minute Rescue of a Million Yiddish Books, will enable highquality scanning of all the books ever printed in that language.

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