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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