I REMEMBER MY PARENTS SPEAKING YIDDISH,AS A SECRET LANGUAGE SO I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE SPEAKING ABOUT, THEY ALWAYS HAD T
O THROW IN AN ENGLISH WORD IN AND FOR THE MOMENT ,LOST THE SECRECY OF THEIR CONVERSATION, I’M IN MY 60′S NOW. YIDDISH A LANGUAGE RICH IN CULTURE AND LITERATURE, ” THE MAMALOSHEN” A MOTHER TONGUE THAT SERVED THE JEWS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE WELL FOR NEARLY 1000 YEARS PUT TO DEATH BY A SELFISH SELF SERVING GENERATION OF JEWISH PARENTS WHO WERE MORE INTERESTED IN THE PRESERVING THE PRIVACY OF THEIR CONVERSATION THAN THEIR CULTURE. THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES TO SHOULDER THE BLAME FOR DESTROYING A CULTURE. THE MODERN STATE ISRAEL SHARES SOME BLAME AS WELL. WHEN THE JEWS WHERE COMING IN FROM EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR TWO. SOLDIERS HARASSED THOSE OPENLY SPEAKING YIDDISH AND WERE REMINDED TO SPEAK HEBREW. THE GOVERNMENT SUPPLIED PAPER FOR NEWSPAPERS AND WOULDN’T SUPPLY PAPER FOR YIDDISH PUBLICATIONS, PAPER FOR YIDDISH DAILY S HAD TO BE BOUGHT ONBLACK MARKET AND WAS WHATEVER COLOR THAT WAS AVAILABLE,IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL TO SEE NEWS PAPERS WITH RED COLOR PAPER FOR YIDDISH PUBLICATIONS.IF ISRAEL HAD MADE YIDDISH THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE ,I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW MANY PRE WWII IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA WOULD HAVE PACKED UP AND LEFT AMERICA FOR ISRAEL IN 1949. I ‘M UPSET WHEN MY YIDDISH PRONUNCIATION IS BEING CORRECTED IN SHUL, ITS NOT RIGHT .THERE IS A RABBI IN THE FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA AREA, THATS SAYS IN HIS ADVERTISEMENT”I USE THE OLD FASHIONED ASHKENAZIC PRONUNCIATION AND GET YOU OUT IN LESS THAN AN HOUR SO YOU CAN TAKE YOUR WIFE TO THE MALL OR KID TO THE LITTLE LEAGUE”.I LIKE THAT……
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Jews of East European or Ashkenazic background have the lighest longevity of all groups on Earth,In a recent study the top three groups were Pre World War 11 Japanese ( those Japanese who where not introduced to western food as post world war Japanese) Icelandic ( diet high in omega 3 oils consisting of mostly of fish) and East Euroupean Jews, The Jews Won Hands down! Thou Jews of Ashkenazic background Have A diet low in vegetable high in starch and fat they easily won . the survey. The BElieved reason is that from a historical period lets sat years Ad circa 1000 to 1900 Ad Jews of Eastern Europe where confined to walled sections of the cities known as Ghettos which had the worst sanitation ( horse drawn Carts with u ncleaned horse droppings) Narrow streets congested living quarters plus had buildings exceeded and raised up as high as 8 stories hundreds years ago , unheard of till the last century to accommodate the large population with in the Jewish pale of Settlement, In that period Typhoid and every airborne disease ran rampant within the narrow walled section of the streets of Eastern Europa,and subsequently as the centuries past preceding generations where of healthier stock as compared to those populations of non Jewish origin. To Jews a super-food is not green leafy vegetables or a strawberry for example but a pastrami club sandwich If you examine the populations of Major world cities Jews Are a minority , but as people reach their senior years the statics change and Jews become Senior and then become the Majority strange as it may sound. The survey did not include Sephardic ( Spanish- Portuguese or Jews of middle eastern stock )
