A Lithuanian-Jewish Family Where Everyone Speaks Yiddish
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2016
- Julijus Gurevich - active member of the Vilnius, Lithuania Jewish community - describes his Yiddish-speaking family, from the grandfather who championed the language to the nieces growing up speaking it.
To see the full interview and learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit:
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/oral...
I've been learning German for 15 years and I realized that I understand all of this. Yiddish is so cool. Jiddisch ist eine interessante Sprache, Ich lerne Deutsch seit 15 Jahren und ich verstehe alles was du gesagt hast!! I really hope the yiddish language doesn't die out. It's an important language and unique mix of Medieval German, Hebrew and Russian
It’s endangered but I think there are enough speakers and people revitalizing Yiddish that it will survive in some form way into the future, nobody knows a thousand years from now.
@@akoden2667 1000 years from now I won't care, as I won't be here on Earth.. but i BELIEVE it will survive 1000 years.. sadly, Ukrainian is not doing very well.. as our population goes from 44 million to 29 million by 2072.. Ukraine may not exist 1000 years from now.. but again, i WILL be long gone. I feel for the Jewish people very much so.. as my family, violent anti-semites they were.. and grandparents killed 30,000 Jews in Lviv.. they tell to me stories how they kill the Jews - looking back at this it makes me upset. Here in Lviv and west Ukraine is very few Jews left. I want to learn this language. Who says a Ukrainian from Lviv - grandson of Ukrainian nationalists who kill Jews can't learn this language ? Dos iz a shande far Yidn az zey nisht mer hobn an interes in the viderlebung fun zeyere yerushe, az oyb a gantz dor iz geshtorbn un di, vos hot gevaksn mit di loshn af zeyer lipn zenen mer nisht. Yo, vi an Ukrainisher yungerman ikh hob lib di, vos viln onrirn andere tsum dos loshn.
איך לערן יידיש אַ ביסל און איך קען פֿאַרשטײן אַ ביסל פֿון ברעכט
WOW ! He speaks really good Yiddish. I am English but I understood everything.
Once my grandmother died the yiddish died with her. Now almost 70 I am relearning Yiddish.
Wow it’s nice to hear young ppl speaking Yiddish, and in this accent
As a Lithuanian who speaks German I'm not sure what you mean, I never heard Yiddish before this video haha
He is evidently a cultured young man because he pronounces the words correctly and clearly.
@@robertcroft8241 yep. That's the textbook accent, as well as his choice of words. Although I enjoy listening to different regional accents too. I myself sometimes pronounce u as i, not sure which acent it is tho
@@GodsWheat listen to this czcams.com/video/1w_SXQUCfsw/video.html the accent is totally different, to me at least a lot closer to Dutch.
I absolutely love this accent. I saw this other video where she speaks totally different czcams.com/video/1w_SXQUCfsw/video.html what accent is this one vs that one?
So wonderful. My family came from Zasliai. I hope I can one day learn Yiddish and honour my legacy and pass it on like his family.
Wow I wish my Yiddish was that good
Какой молодец!!!
A Mejaie tzu Hern reden Ydisch azoi Gut!!
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As a Swede, I could probably make out 20% of spoken Yiddish.
It has a real middle German feel in this litvishe Yiddish 🎉
I speak the Hungarian version.
Как Юлик? Когда-то ездил с ним
Gor herlich tzi heren aza zeesen mamaloshon kumendik fun yunge Yidden in "der Alter Heim"
Was bedeutet aza zeesen??
@@karnemelk66 Vos batayt aza zisn ? What is sweet mean ?
bei Ihm hob i olles verstanden, bei der Fragestellerin leider nur die Hälfte...
Awseome! As an german from the deep southwest, which his dialect is influenced by yiddish and lotegorisch, i understand him for a 100% without any subtitles...great! greetings from kaiserslautern :-)
There are still Jews in Lita?
@J. W. K. Yes ! Germany is again slowly becoming home.
@@robertcroft8241 the idea that all Jewish people hate Germans is not truth. Most of the German Jews saw themselves as Germans first and as Jews second. Jewish Germans have given a lot to society and happen to be some of the most patriotic people in their host countries
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And I don't really see the point of your comment. In my experience (and according to the data... for example, look up statistics of the duolingo Irish course... most of the students are members of the Irish diaspora, almost certainly from the States) those ethnicities are more, not less, interested in learning their ancestral languages than Jewish Americans are. . I only personally knew of a single Jewish American who even expressed interest in studying Yiddish, but many Norwegian/German/Chinese/Finnish etc. -Americans who studied their respective ancestors' languages and/or talked frequently and enthusiastically about their ancestry. Blood? The whole sentiment here is a little bizarre, especially considering the context: the person in this video isn't American. He's from Vilnius, where Yiddish was spoken by 50% of the population up until it was wiped out in the blink of an eye. That fact that someone would be bothered by the existence of a handful of remaining native speakers in this territory is kind of mindboggling. Yiddish is a dying language and unless you live in some specific part of Brooklyn or intentionally look for it online, chances are pretty good that you will never hear it spoken. So the comment about buffets and monocrops, even if it wasn't your intention, basically conveys the message of "Yes, it's a dying language, but why doesn't it just die already?"
Fix your word order and you will be speaking German :-D
Good accent, lacks sophisticated vocabulary
נישט געקוקט אויף דעם, וואס זיין זיידע האט געוואלט אז די פאמיליע זאל רעדן אידיש צווישן זיך, איז זיין אידיש, דער אינטערוויוירטער'ס אידיש נישט אין גאנצן אידישליך, און נישט וואס מע וואלט ערווארט פון עמעצן וואס איז אויפגעוואקסן אין א אידיש רעדנדיגער היים.
I like the language (and understand maybe 75% thx to a decade in Switzerland) and have nothing against it, but I just don't see the point. I know no Irish-American or German-American (my ancestry) with the faintest interest in learning these languages just because of "blood." Blood is just a few random mutations in DNA and hardly to be accorded primacy in human affairs if you ask me. My wife is Japanese, and our son speaks both English and Japanese (as my wife and I do) but I wouldn't counsel my son to keep some tradition of Japanese language alive with his kids in turn, should he settle in the US. Likewise if he settled in Japan I wouldn't advise wasting time with any aspect of "American culture" with his progeny. Let the next generation figure out their interests, don't spoon-feed them your own interest. And the cultures of the world should be a buffet, not a monocrop.
The problem is that the moment they figure our their interests, they are already too old to study languages on native level, while for children it just goes naturally. Why not?
But knowing many languages from a young age does not limit the kids ability to go after their own interests when they are older. It enhance their ability cause they can look at they subject or language they want to learn from many viewpoints.
It boggles my mind that people have the time to write offensive, stupid comments like this, yet not enough to do the iota of research (or at least self-reflection) to consider if writing a paragraph of drivel like this is worthwhile. Here are a few points:
1. The speaker is not American, he's a native of Vilnius, where up until WWII nearly 50% of the population spoke Yiddish. Does it bother you that there are still some Cherokee and Navajo speakers making an effort to preserve their languages? The dude's grandfather decided to pass on his native language after 90% of the Jewish population was obliterated. How ethnocentric of him!
2. What's the point of learning any foreign language, or having any language diversity in the world? Might as well just have everyone give up their languages and speak English or Esperanto.
3. My experience completely contradicts your unsavory implication that Jews are more concerned about "blood" than German or Irish-Americans. Look up the statistics of the Irish Gaelic duolingo course... the overwhelming majority of these people are Irish-Americans. I personally know many scandinavian, german, irish, etc. -americans who were very interested in and studied their heritage languages. Do you know there's a vibrant community of Scottish Gaelic speakers (not recent immigrants, these are descendants of people who migrated in the 1700 and 1800s) in Canada? Ever heard of Texas German? American Finnish? There are some 40000 Norwegian speakers in the U.S. (and based on immigration patterns, it's clearly these aren't from new immigrants). There are many Scandinavian language schools, cultural centers, day camps for example, across the U.S.
4. Aside from Irish Gaelic, none of the languages or examples you mentioned are in any way comparable to Yiddish, which had a thriving culture, literature, etc. up until the 1940s when the whole world of that language was essentially wiped off the face of the earth in a blink of the eye. German and Japanese are each spoken as native languages by over a hundred million people, are the official languages in multiple countries and are studied by students around the world (I studied German here in the U.S. in high school).
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I know many Irish-Americans who have learned Irish, and many are fluent like me. I am no longer surprised when I meet Irish-Americans from outside my language circles who have studied it. Just random people who are interested in their heritage. It doesn't normally crimp the "buffet"--usually it fosters it.
simple - you aren't jewish. So can't understand