Ifidclish,Writer&Mourn at Israel Sessions

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fects similar to that which caused
impetus to such analyses of a the death of the Tog.
tragedy that struck one of the Slomovitz, called upon for coin-
most powerful Jewish dailies in the ments, gave an historical analysis
world, and none other than Israel's of the status of the Yiddish press.
prime minister, Golds Meir, util- He called attention to the power
ized the occasion to address, in of the 10 Yiddish newspapers, with
Yiddish, the opening session • of a circulation. of 790,000, in 1814, in
that congress, in Beit Agron in the this country, when the American
Jewish population numbered only
Holy City.
3 000
The sessions were held in the
• • 000
• Yet, • he said, • today, • with
Morris Schaver auditorium, estab- only one Yiddish daily left, that
fished by Emma Scheyer in mem- newspaper's circulation is less than
that of one of the English-Jewish
ory of her late husband,
newspapers in America; the Jewish
For the Yiddish writers this was Exponent of Philadelphia.
a balm in an hour of despair. Yet,
Slornoviti reminded the audience
during the sessions that ensued of the census figures in Canada
there was a sense of mourning, a in 1945 when 96 per cent of the
spirit of bitterness against those Jews of that country claimed Yid-
who "permitted" the closing of dish as their mother tongue, a
the Tog (as it is commonly referred figure that dropped to less than
to briefly). And as an ensuing ele- 5 per cent, and he pointed with
ment in the debates when the stat- sorrow to the death of the once
us of Yiddish was argued, the Yid- famous Yiddisher Odler of Canada,
dish adherents insisted that the which recently was transformed
language was dynamic and vibrant. into a trilingual newspaper
The editor of The Detroit Jewish to pass out of :etistenee:"
News, Philip Slomovitz, asked for
He pointed to conditions in Latin
a comment from the English lan- America, with all the hopes that
guage press, called attention to were placed on Yiddish remaining
an historical condition that does a stronghold there. Yet, Slomovitz.
not offer too much hope for sur- reminded the Yiddish writers, in
vival of Yiddish as a major Jew- 1955 Dr. Jacob Lestchinsky, more
ish dialect.
realistic then than, they are now,
Mrs. Meir echoed the view ex- pointed to a rapid decline in Yid-
pressed in Jewish News Commen- dish usage which today has re-
tary (Jan. 7) of the common inter- . duced the states of Yiddish news - .
pretatior of the death of a reader papers and schools in Latin Ameri-
of the Jewish press as marking can countries to that of Canada.
the passing of a. subscriber to a
As another warning, the gath-
Yiddish newspaper, and she called ered
joarnaPsta were% reminded
it "a vita mit gall" "a joke with that the
Yiddish theater and the
gall." but she also referred to landamanshaftea
have died or are
Yiddish writers as "a mishnaha dyhtg and ke admonished
those
fun yesomim" — a family of ;or- alteiresked in the Jewish press
te-:

phans.
It was in this sense at realism-
that she pointed out the Holo-
caust meant not only the death

said, He called attention to , Aram-
ale and Ladino. The former, be
said, is not dead for scholars be-
cause of the literature in it (the
Book of Daniel,- etc.). Therefore
it lives for. scholars. Ladino will
survive only because of its rich
musical gifts to Jewry- '
Yiddish had such a _rich litera-
ture that it cannot die. But, Slomo
vitz said, it will live- in Israel
in Israel's universities and in the
archives which will always make

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spoken Jewish language in the gathering of the Exiles." -
world," and Avraham Shenker of
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the importance of the English-Jew-
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Kol, describing the large 1972 tour-
Will'. Yiddish die? No, Slomovitx ism numbers that totaled 857,000,

of the Six Million but also the
murder of a part of Judaism, the
destruction of a generation of
Jews. Her view was that while
Yiddish can be translated, Juda-
ism cannot, and she pleaded for
an expanded Jewish educational
program to overcome the detri-
mental effects of a Bar Mitzva
Judaism that represents social
events and presents and does not
assure perpetuated loyalities to
Jewish ideals and to the Jewish
heritage.
Mrs. Meir's view was of "a col-
lective" Jew representing the ideals
inherent in the Jewish unity that
binds Israel with the Diaspora.
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were analyses of a Yiddish inde-
structible, of a press that needs
support and can survive with sub-
sidies. A member of the Knesset,
Itzhak Korn, went so far as to
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English language newspapers, 43,40 told the journalists that In addi-
per cent of the total, that the 218 tion there were 110,000 Arab visi-
in Hebrew represent 22.85 per cent tors who came from the countries
of the total, and the 111 Yiddish that seek the destruction of Israel
—including Kuwait, Egypt, Leban-
are 1.1.63 per cent of the total.
on, Saudi Arabia and others.
In the Diaspora, he reported,
Israel expects r50,000 tour-
there are 629 Jewish periodicals,
ists this year and 850,000 on Is-
65.93 per cent of the world total,
25th anniversary year-
of which there are English, 354 reel's
1973. Kol said there are now
--56.28- per cent; Hebrew, 19—
16,000
hotel rooms and 7,000
3.02 per cent; and Yiddish, 97—
more will be built this year.
15A2 per cent.
He proposed special newspaper
There were protests at the ses-
during the 25th anniver-
sion, in which Jimmy Wisch of functions
sary year. He suggested -"Living
Dallas, president of the American Newspaper" projects starting with
.Jewish • Press Association, and Al- Sukkot this year for schools, clubs
bert Blum of Pittsburgh joined,
there were protests against actions and synagogues.
* *
of Israel consulates and embassies
Policy addresses by Finance
which have been charged with giv- Minister Pinhas Sapir and Jewish
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non-Jewish newspapers while ig- highlighted some of the journalists'
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