Description: While widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity, and as a site for creative renewal in the Jewish world and beyond. Yiddish Lives On explores diverse stories and strategies of resistance to language decline.
Brief description: Rebecca Margolis is director and Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia.
Review Quotes: "Yiddish Lives On successfully covers a wide range of topics regarding Yiddish, embracing the diversity of Yiddish speakers today. The book focuses on Canada, but points to the fact that no one country's Yiddish language activism and transmission story can be separated from the broader, trans-national world Yiddishists have built for decades both in person and online. One of the great benefits of Margolis's book, moreover, is that it offers an opportunity to understand or review Canadian Jewish history and culture through a very specific lens and gives a good introduction to the topic of Canadian Jewry for those who know little about the subject." Canadian Jewish Studies