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Sperka, one of the school's
principals. "So far, it's been
successful. We added Yiddish
because it's something useful
for the children to know."
Students at Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah and Darchei Torah
can learn Yiddish, but such
classes are not required. ,
In the late 1970s, while
Aaron Lansky was studying
Yiddish literature as a grad-
uate student at McGill Uni-
versity in Montreal, he had a
hard time finding Yiddish
reading material. There sim-
ply were no Yiddish books.
While soliciting Montreal's
old Jewish neighborhoods in
search of Yiddish literature
for his classes, Mr. Lansky
found that numerous books
were being discarded. As old-
er generations of Jews died,
their books were thrown out
or given to children and
grandchildren who could not
read the language.
Then a 23-year-old gradu-
ate student, Mr. Lansky felt
an urgency to collect as many
Yiddish books as possible. So
he took a leave of absence
from school and searched the
country for Yiddish litera-
ture.
"I went to work as a mi-
grant worker picking blue-
berries so I could make
enough money to try and res-
cue the books before it was
too late," he said.
Mr. Lansky went to New
York to seek support from
Jewish organizations. He told
such groups that materials
had to be saved before the
"last physical remnant of
East European Jewish cul-
ture was lost."
Each time Mr. Lansky ap-
proached a Jewish organiza-
tion with his idea, he met
with the same response:
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Yiddish Book Center.
"Don't you know Yiddish is
dead?"
But he refused to eulogize
Yiddish and within a year, he
launched the National Yid-
dish Book Center in South
Hadley, Mass., an organiza-
tion dedicated to the rescue
of old Yiddish books.
Since then, he has col-
lected 1.2 million vol-
umes of Yiddish
literature, and boxes of
would-be discarded books
are still rolling in.
Mr. Lansky maintains
Yiddish will not be re-
vived as a widely spoken
language. He does be-
lieve Yiddish and its lit-
erature are making a
comeback, especially on
college campuses where
students study the lan-
guage so they can read
and understand the writ-
ten culture of Jews who
lived in Eastern Europe.
"If we as a people want
to know who we are, then
we must remember
where we've come from,"
Mr. Lansky said. "Given
that perspective, Yiddish
will have a role to play
because the literature is a
looking glass to Jewish-his-
tory."
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