2012年1月27日金曜日

Yiddish culture

Today, I went to my Yiddish teacher's home to learn Yiddish language and songs.
She is a master student as well, but her school is not SOAS.
She studies Yiddish  literature for five years and came to London two years ago from Poland.
She is really nice and smart! She knows a lot about Yiddish songs and klezmer as well as language, novel and poem. She has many CDs and Cassette tapes of Yiddish music, so I could listen to them in her flat.
Thanks to her, I feel that learning Yiddish is fun! It is true that reading Hebrew letters is not easy,
but a dialogue in Yiddish seems to be a kind of word game!
I listened to some Yiddish songs, and I found these are accompanied by klezmer musicians, such as "Klezmatics." The lyrics of these are strongly related to the Jewish people's life (love, child, community...) So I think it is possible to understand Jewish culture by singing and playing Yiddish songs.
By the way, I plan to go to Yiddish workshop or summer school to learn Yiddish music and language.
In some countries, such workshop or class will be held. Now I have not much money, so I try to apply to a scholarship.

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