Known as the mother language, Yiddish was common and a symbol of traditional life in the household. Speakers considered it to be rather feminine due to its prevalence in usage of non-scholarly individuals. But because most people were not scholarly, the language connected most Jews together and kept them from assimilating to the new world. Language is a basis for culture and culture creates connections in societies. Yiddish helped Jews keep their traditional culture by giving them a way to communicate and spread traditions orally without having to be educated. It is not until Jewish citizens have been forced to listen and interact with non-Yiddish speakers do they lose a sense of community and culture. Paralleled in the stories of Sholem Aleichem,…
Third, they address philosophical issues that pivot about endeavoring to grasp God's powerlessness to respond to the cries of His family . Here, in tending to God's part, Sholem Aleichem and Elie Wiesel get the chance to be particularly unmistakable and dynamic in their reformulation. By definition, a holocaust is a magnificent or complete obliteration or demolition. Regardless, these words or any words will never adequately describe or depict the Holocaust of the Twentieth Century. Yes, there…
Mendele Mokher Seforim (מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים, alternatively transcribed as Moykher Sforim or Sfarim; 1835–1917) is the pen name of Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, whom Sholem Aleichem dubbed the “grandfather” of Yiddish literature (Miron). Scholars still agree that Abramovitsh established modern Yiddish prose (ibid). Beginning his literary career in Hebrew, he soon turned to Yiddish for a realistic portrayal of Jewish life. The novella Dos kleyne Mentschele (1864) constitutes his first Yiddish…
so books in the camp, but they were valuable as an escape for prisoners there. This time it is not their collective insight into the human condition that the author wants the reader to appreciate, but the importance of the objects themselves. Rather than containing the evidence of hope that is part of his argument, Manguel shows that the books themselves are the driving force behind that shared emotion. In addition, it is no small amount of [irony? Symbolism?] in regards to Manguel’s argument…