Letter to the Editor: On Preferring English

B. Sheyfer

1918

Esteemed editor:

Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring.

I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there can be no discussion. I cannot imagine there is a single member of the Arbeter Ring interested in studying “geology” in Yiddish, if he already knows a…

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B. Sheyfer

19th–20th Century

An immigrant, likely from the Russian Empire, and a member of the Arbeter Ring living in Buffalo, New York, B. Sheyfer wrote a letter to the editor of Der fraynd in February 1918 arguing in favor of expanded English-language education among Yiddish immigrants. Feeling that the National Education Committee of the Arbeter Ring placed too much emphasis on Yiddish, Sheyfer reasons in the letter that education in English would promote greater Americanization in new arrivals. Der fraynd, a Yiddish paper published in New York City, was the organ of the Arbeter Ring.

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