At Yiddish Week, a beloved language is as vital as ever

The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp successful Copake, New York, were live successful mid-August with a gaggle of astir 100 campers, young and old. Like astatine galore camps, they played sports, boated successful the lake, swam successful the excavation and sang songs astir the campfire. But they did each of those things — swim, sing, devour and simply unrecorded — portion speaking solely successful Yiddish. Yiddish-Vokh (Yiddish-week) has been an yearly solemnisation of the lingua since 1975, and draws everyone from non-Jews to secular Jews, arsenic good arsenic Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews ranging successful property from infants to astir 90. All of them looking to link with their individuality done the humanities connection of Ashkenazi Jewry.