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One of the joys of Yiddish, to appropriate the title of Leo Rosten’s essential 1968 cultural dictionary, is how swaths of young people around the globe embraced its vitality and relevance in the late 20th century.
The rediscovery and renewal of Yiddish culture was not a passing fad, or so one concludes from “Yiddish,” a new, spirit-raising film from longtime Israeli documentary cinematographer and director Nurith Aviv.
The 61-minute film became available to stream online on March 2, and a screening with a talk featuring the director and UC Berkeley professor Chana Kronfeld, whose fields of expertise include Yiddish and poetry, is set for March 7.