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| Title | Article: The Revival of Yiddish in Music and Literature |
| Body | From http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/02/pr-ven?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/ The revival of Yiddish in music and literature If you take the subway around New York, you can sometimes hear groups of young Jewish women chatting quietly, their hair covered. At a distance, it sounds like they’re using German, perhaps Hebrew. In fact, they’re speaking Yiddish, a language once spoken by over 10m people. The wars of the 20th century changed that; barely a million speakers remain. But for all the catastrophes perpetrated against its speakers, Yiddish has endured. In fact, it is undergoing a renaissance. Read the full article at http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/02/pr-ven?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/ |
| Source | The Economist |
| Inputdate | 2017-02-17 20:27:53 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2017-02-20 03:47:30 |
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| Publishdate | 2017-02-20 02:15:02 |
| Displaydate | 2017-02-20 00:00:00 |
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