It is as Quebec Provincial government tried to convince the Canadian federal government: ‘The Language IS the culture, and the culture IS the language’. I think they said it quite well!
jerome
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 21:47, Shelley <shemit65_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was raised in America with a close relationship to my grandmother
> and her two brothers who escaped to Shanghai before coming here. When
> the family got together, they spoke Yiddish and English, They all
> spoke multiple languages but in America, Yiddish flowed like wine.
> Drinking Schapps, singing songs, warm embraces. My Baba loved
> listening to and singing Yiddish songs and always remembered the old
> Yiddish theatre. As she got older and we spoke on the phone, she
> sometimes forgot I was her grandchild and not her daughter and she'd
> break into Yiddish. Without knowing many words, I always felt her
> meaning. To me, Yiddish was the warmth and love called the Jewish
> Culture. Hebrew represented the religion.
>
> Shelley Mitchell
>
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