A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in French
Myriam Anissimov
1995
I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular language by the Hasidim, primarily in New York, Meah Shearim, and Bnei Brak, it is about to disappear outside of these purely religious groups. But Yiddish…
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