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At Yiddish Week, a waning if beloved language looks as vital as ever

At Yiddish Week, a waning if beloved language looks as vital as ever
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Duolingo just added a Yiddish course Could you plotz?

Duolingo just added a Yiddish course. Could you plotz? CNET 3 days ago Ed Begley Jr. gets the schpilkes in Christoper Guest comedy A Mighty Wind. Popular language-learning platform Duolingo rolled out a Yiddish course for English speakers this week, and I m kvelling. The course, which debuted April 6, guides students through speaking, reading and writing the richly expressive language that originated with Jews in Central and Eastern Europe and served as their lingua franca for centuries. © Provided by CNET Ed Begley Jr. gets schpilkes in Christoper Guest s 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind. Warner Archive/GIPHY Don t know bupkes about Yiddish? It blends old German, Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic languages, and drips with humor, irony, pathos and history. While it s still spoken in largely Jewish neighborhoods in places like New York, there s been renewed broader interest in the language, as well its robust tradition of literature, poetry, music, film and theater.

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