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Jerusalem Post/Magazine/Features

In Yiddish, of course

To many it is the language of an older generation that didn’t identify with a particular place but a culture – it has been the language of European Jews much more than Hebrew.

YOUNG ULTRA-Orthodox Jewish children play in the alleys of Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim.
YOUNG ULTRA-Orthodox Jewish children play in the alleys of Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim.
(photo credit: MAŁGORZATA MACIEJEWSKA)
ByCHAVI MOSKOWITZ
APRIL 24, 2014 12:38
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