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shalom-iamcominghome · 4 months ago

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What I love and what's heartbreaking about Diasporic languages (e.g., Ladino, Yiddish, ect. ect.) is that I see them as languages of survival. Survival of jewish culture and communities, survival of people in lands that were too often opposed to their very existence. These languages are beautiful to me because I know it's am yisrael chai is irrevocably true, heartbreaking because the Diaspora can be such a hostile environment.

And I don't think this is what many people (non-jews especially, when we're talking about jewish diasporic languages) get. Languages such as diasporic languages exist in context of survival. It's such a complex feeling I have, because I love these languages, and at the same time know why they often had to exist.

#jumblr #jewish politics #jewish diaspora #personal thoughts tag #also it hurts when i look at the list of Diasporic languages and see (extinct) roght after it #because i can only imaging what made those languages extinct and it's just sickening #this is part of the reason i want to learn yiddish. i see it as a complex language of survival #plus yiddish is what i've seen most people in my area speak and know #i wouldn't be opposed toward learning other Diasporic languages though #but since i've learned a little german before yiddish is kind of easier for me #ladino might actually be the second Diasporic language i learn actually.......

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