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Paris’s Nouveau Yiddish Culture

ISSUES Posted: September 3, 2014 11:50 pm

“In France, which houses the biggest Jewish community in Europe, the Ashkenazi legacy has been sadly shrinking.” (What, the Sephardim are chopped liver?) “In the latter half of the 20th century, what French Jews call their imaginary Yiddishland has been reduced to a small patch. … However, there is reason for hope. In Paris, a new generation of entrepreneurs are launching initiatives to perpetuate the Yiddish way of life.”

ISSUES Published: 09.02.14

Read the story in The Daily Beast Published: 09.02.14

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