Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Dear Christian,

I was in Vilna, Lithuania in 2006. There is a Jewish school there for the
small Jewish
community. It has about 250 students, many of whom are
not Jewish, as the school has very high educational standards.

The definition of a Jew in Lithuania is that of a person with one parent or
even grandparent
who is or was Jewish, not necessarily Jewish by traditional orthodox Jewish
(Halachic) laws.
The Jewish population of Lithuania was decimated in the Holocaust.
So, yes - sadly, Yiddish is definitely not a priority in Lithuania any more.

Merle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

> Mimi,
>
> this reminds me on an experience in Vilna, Lithuania about a year ago.
> Close to my hotel was the Choral Synagogue, beautiful decorated in moorish
> style. I was curious about the interior decoration but the building was
> closed whenever I passed by. I took my chance at Shabbat evening; a very
> old man opened and brought me to a room with other very old men. While I
> had a pleasant conversation with the youngest person there in English I
> realized the old gentlemen were talking in Yiddish with each other. This
> gave me the chance to follow the conversation. The topic was: those young
> folks don't speak Yiddish any more, they simply are not interested. After
> they finished the complains they continued in Russian. I guess it's
> similar in Czernowitz.
>
> Christian
>

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