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Kenneth Dyer said children were punished for breaking a rulethat such play should be restricted to school fields.. More than 17,000 children are separated from their mothers each year because the women have been sent to prison. Almost all are forced to leave their homes, an analysis of figures from the Government and prison reform campaigners has found. David Pearson, a Penguin junior designer, and the art director, Jim Stoddart, developed the series.¿ Jasper Morrison, 45, is known for his deceptively simple designs for household objects. His work ranges from a set of knives and forks that took three years to design to a Rowenta toaster, kettle and coffee machine His furniture includes a sofa incorporating a coffee table.. Sholem Alechem’s Teyve the Milkman was celebrated in the Hollywood movie Fiddler on the Roof.

The late, great Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in Yiddish but his stories (translated into English) popularised the complexities of shtetl life. The mass migration of Jews to the US and Britain took place between l880 and l930. This wave was accompanied by films and theatre in Yiddish as popular entertainment for the masses. Even Shakespeare was Yiddishised; posters proclaimed it to be “translated and far better”!Even after most Yiddish speakers were murdered in the gas chambers and the Nazi killing fields, Yiddishisms trickled into US popular culture. But as Yiddish was forgotten, huge resources of Yiddish books, sheet music and plays were jettisoned This loss was international.

Although Stalin first championed Yiddish schools and theatres, by the 1930s he was murdering many Jewish artists, including the brilliant Yiddish actor, Solomon Mikhoels.As Katz painfully points out, Yiddish was also assassinated by the emergence of the hastily-constructed modern Hebrew which accompanied the setting up of the state of Israel. He rejects modern Hebrew as Israel’s language and suggests it be called “Israeli”, distancing it from classical Hebrew and disconnecting it from the many languages associated with Jewishness.The war between Yiddish-speaking Jew and Hebrew-talking Israeli can also been seen as a struggle between the feminine and the masculine Yiddish is often criticised as “kitchen language” Women, and unlearned men, spoke it Hebrew was the domain of prayer and masculine duty. The struggle between “Jew” and “Israeli” is also a war between competing ideologies Yiddish was the language for a people without a land. Hebrew was the language for the myth of “a land without a people”.European and American Jews disturbed by an Israeli military state crave a model of Jewishness they can accept. Yiddish seems to offer that positive sense of a counter-culture.

The problem is, who is now going to bother learning Yiddish? Certainly, there are pockets of enthusiastic young learners, and a multiplying Chassidic orthodoxy made up of people who live in the Yiddish language while denying the plural, secular elements of Yiddish culture. But these movements are hardly going to make Yiddish a living experience for today’s Jewish population.Aaron Lansky’s book is an adventure story about the survival of Yiddish. This fast-moving, funny account of his 25-year mission to save Yiddish books from the dumpster is a very exciting read. Lansky is the founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center and his struggle is punctuated with crazy scenes from Jewish America.Lansky describes how each donor tearfully hands over every book with a long description of the work and how he got hold of it. Not only must Lansky listen politely; he also has to accept mountains of food. After 24 hours, he feels his arteries are flooding with cholesterol.