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Saving Yiddish

Shmulik Atzmon is a driving force behind keeping the language alive, but he believes the state should do more to help.

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Some might argue that we are what we eat, but our early cultural and social backdrop tends to have a lasting bearing on our behavior and choices throughout our life, whether we like it or not.

Shmulik Atzmon discovered a long time ago there was no escaping his formative childhood cultural baggage, and now he is one of the driving forces behind keeping Yiddish and its cultural hinterland alive and kicking, here and around the world.

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