A lot of times it's hard for Yiddishists to travel to get together. We see this all the time at the Yiddish vokh, when we see the people that DO come halfway around the world for 5 days of hanging out in Yiddish. It is sooo difficult for people to travel from, for instance, Australia, or Mexico, or Argentina, to NYC and then take a bus to the Berkshires. They spend days traveling. And we only see the smiling Yiddishists who make the trip - never the people who don't.
Wouldn't it be something to have scholarships and help with airfare for Yiddishist families to travel and see each other? If we could give funding to teenagers in Russia who are doing brilliant work in Yiddish but can't scrape together the cash for a plane ticket?
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Zayt Bagrist
Substantial, sustained funding for Yiddish infrastructure and pedagogy? Donors who understand the value of Yiddish culture for the future? Zise Khaloymes. I know.
Too many of us are struggling to realize our projects, getting by on passion and a few scraped together dollars. But our plays, magazines, reading groups and all our other projects are so precious because they are for us, by us. No ulterior motives, no Jewish babies rhetoric. We are the face of Jewish continuity, living Jewish lives in a Jewish language within rich Jewish communities. And we deserve all the funding and support that is given to any other Jewish youth movement.
I had the idea for this blog so that we can brainstorm together about our dream projects and show the mainstream Jewish world that we are not an anomaly, not a revival, not a bunch of scattered weirdos but that we are a real movement and a real community. Not all of us have the same goals or ideology, but we do all share the same belief in the inherent worth of Yiddish and Yiddish culture as an important part of Jewish life. I'm hoping that we can share ideas, inspire each other and, ultimately, demand (yes, demand!) the Jewish community allocate equal respect, and resources, to us. And the first step in that process is us figuring out what we want.
Too many of us are struggling to realize our projects, getting by on passion and a few scraped together dollars. But our plays, magazines, reading groups and all our other projects are so precious because they are for us, by us. No ulterior motives, no Jewish babies rhetoric. We are the face of Jewish continuity, living Jewish lives in a Jewish language within rich Jewish communities. And we deserve all the funding and support that is given to any other Jewish youth movement.
I had the idea for this blog so that we can brainstorm together about our dream projects and show the mainstream Jewish world that we are not an anomaly, not a revival, not a bunch of scattered weirdos but that we are a real movement and a real community. Not all of us have the same goals or ideology, but we do all share the same belief in the inherent worth of Yiddish and Yiddish culture as an important part of Jewish life. I'm hoping that we can share ideas, inspire each other and, ultimately, demand (yes, demand!) the Jewish community allocate equal respect, and resources, to us. And the first step in that process is us figuring out what we want.
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