Returning to our origins - national tradition, history, language, culture - is inevitable if we want to preserve ourselves as a people. A seminar on Yiddish culture, which took place at the "Hesed Besht" HBF, generated great interest. A representative of the International Yiddish Center in Vilnius VEK, a teacher of Yiddish at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Tatiana Batanova, conducted it for clients of the fund and participants of the "Jewish Revival 2019" project.
Before World War II, more than 11 million Jews in the world spoke Yiddish. Now - about a million. This language is one of the countless losses of the Holocaust. However, it will soon be classified as a dead language. In the book of Jacob it is said: "For there is hope for a tree, that even if it is cut down, it will grow again." Interest in the Yiddish language is huge, even among the non-Jewish population. And this means that this colorful, rich, flowery language, dear to our mother's heart, is being revived.
The second topic of the seminar - "Jewish song" - also caused a very big response in our audience. After all, older people have a unique opportunity to return to their childhood and youth, to feel the sweetness of that time, and young people have another chance to become more familiar and interested in Yiddish culture.
