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Edelstadt and Bovshoyer or with
October 1917. Both attempt to
force Jews into a Procrustean bed
and to perform a kind of surgery
on Jewish culture which can only
result in its death. Yiddish cannot
serve as an instrument of Leftism
nor dan Hebrew serve as an in-
strument of Canaanism. Secular
Yiddishism and secular Hebraism
are both assimilationist ideologies.
Nobody can foresee exactly the
fate of Yiddish. The present situa-
tion does not appear to be prom-
ising. Nevertheless, whoever suc-
ceeds to the heritage of Yiddish
will not be able to forget the Yid-
dish language, Yiddish literature,
Loshen-Kodesh, the shtetl, Yid-
dish proverbs, everything associ-
ated with life in Eastern Europe
during the past six centuries.
Genuine Jewish literature in He-
brew and other languages will
necessarily be rooted in Yiddish
literature and will derive from it
inspiration, insight, the ingredi-
ents which provide the vitamins of
a people and a culture.
It is not a fortuitous phenome-
non if nowadays, when Yiddish
appears to be in decline, it is
being enriched by works from
which the Jewish people will draw
sustenance so long as it endures.
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derive lessons from it. The catas-
trophe literature is tremendous
and almost entirely in Yiddish. If
Yiddish possessed only these
memoirs, it would be a great liter-
ature. If Yiddish expires (and I
cannot accept this conclusion),
then its sunset is of an unforgetta-
ble splendor.
Whatever may happen to Yid-
ple, and when, on the other hand,
Jews stubbornly and heroically
built a Jewish state and created
a Jewish literature in Yiddish and
Hebrew. To understand the enig-
ma of our age, its incredible di-
lemmas and contradictions, they
will have to turn back constantly
to the shtetl, to Yiddish litera-
ture, and to that portion of He-
brew literature which is linked
with the shtetl and with Yiddish.
What is genuine in Yiddish liter-
ature will be studied and analyzed
not merely as literature but also
as a source to help them under-
stand our wild impulse for self-
destruction and our colossal will
for renewal, two antiethical forces
which arose simultaneously and
exist side by side.
Both literatures, Hebrew and
Yiddish, mirror our will to life
and our will to oblivion. What the
Yevseks and their fellow-travelers
did to Yiddish, certain young He-
brew writers are now doing to
Hebrew: trying to transform the
language into a medium for for-
getting, into a narcotic which ob-
literates memory. Both are tools
of national suicide. The Jews for
whom Jewish history ends with
Masada and begins again with
Herzl or with the founding of the
Jewish state is as much an assimi-
lationist as the Yiddishist for
whom Jewishness begins with
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Stutchkoff’s Thesaurus of the
Yiddish Language, The Great
Yiddish Dictionary, Zinberg’s
History of Literature Among
Jews, and other works by con-
temporary Yiddish writers open
new vistas and have a new signi-
ficance for Yiddish literature.
The Hitler catastrophe begot a
literature of memoirs which the
present generation cannot yet ful-
ly appreciate. We have not the
strength to ponder all the recorded
cruelties and suffering. All of us
have lost kinsmen in this disaster.
We try now and then to peer into
the horrors but only later genera-
tions will assess the havoc and
dish as a spoken tongue, Yiddish
literature will abide with the Jews
and will bear witness to a most
dramatic era of Jewish history
and to a monumental power of
Jewish creativeness. Jews will al-
ways revert to it, and the more
they will study it, the greater will
be the treasures they will discover.
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Morin M. Scott, President Dick Maegle, Vice Pres. & Mgr.
Bill Newkirk, Vice Pres., Club Carol Elliott, Club Secretary
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