They Only Spoke It When They Didn’t Want Us To Understand

When:
November 3, 2016 @ 2:00 pm
2016-11-03T14:00:00-07:00
2016-11-03T14:15:00-07:00
Where:
Tucson Jewish Community Center
Jewish Community Center
3800 E River Rd, Tucson, AZ 85718
USA
Cost:
$5
Contact:
Lynn Davis
520-299-3000

Leon H. Gildin shares his life-long passion for mameloshn, the language of our Ashkenazi ancestors. Gildin traces the history and evolution of Yiddish from vernacular, to literature, to poetry, to its enduring influence on American culture, politics and society. He will also touch on the challenges and nuances of treating Yiddish in translation.



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