[Cz-L] ERC Lecture Series: The Development of Yiddish Literature Since the Czernowitz Conference (in 1908)

>From Iosif Vaisman, in his description of the first Yiddish language
conference:

The First Conference for the Yiddish Language, also known as the Tshernovits
Conference, opened on Sunday, August 30, 1908. The Conference was convened
to discuss very important topics, formulated in the ten point Conference
agenda. To what extent the Conference succeeded in finding the solutions to
any of these ten problems has been a subject of discussions (sometimes quite
fierce) ever since. A simple look at the agenda is sufficient to see that
many issues have yet to be resolved:

1. Yiddish spelling
2. Yiddish grammar
3. Foreign words and new words
4. A Yiddish dictionary
5. Jewish youth and the Yiddish language
6. The Yiddish press
7. The Yiddish theater and Yiddish actors
8. The economic status of Yiddish writers
9. The economic status of Yiddish actors
10. Recognition for the Yiddish language

One hundred years later in October 2008 Boris Sandler, Editor-in-Chief of
the Forverts newspaper, gave a speech in Yiddish to the attendees of the
IAYC (International Association of Yiddish Clubs conference) about the
development of Yiddish literature since this 1908 conference.

A transcript of his talk on this subject is available now in English within
the Museum's Education and Research Center within its "ERC Lecture Series."

You can read a transcript of his talk at
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/iayc2008-sandler.htm .

Best,
Steven Lasky
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com
steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com
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