Status Updates From How Yiddish Changed America...

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from yesterday and before

one more day left of 2024…

do not think i will be finishing this before 2025 comes :(

finally made it to the section about “tevye the dairyman”!!!! this is exciting even if the author says “fiddler on the roof” does sholem aleichem a disservice :(((

so excited to continue this bc i’ve (for now) moved past depressing fictional stories about pogroms and am now reading a /fascinating/ essay about yiddish and sholem aleichem’s role in legitimizing it as a language <3 shoutout to tevye the dairyman and fiddler on the roof <3 also it mentioned ladino on the first page of the essay!!

everything is so sad!!!!

the danger of this book is that they don’t really give you any context (or warnings) for any of the selections… so i just read a poem about the holocaust without expecting to. happy hanukkah?

yesterday’s progress… merry hanukkah eve 🥳

that’s some sad poetry!

enjoying!! i really like how it’s broken up into sections. i think this could be a good book club book— i’ve been sharing my thoughts on random passages w friends, but i wish i could talk through some of the sections w someone else. maybe it’s just bc i’m still accustomed to reading for class, but something feels unfinished about reading all of this by myself and then just moving on!!

annotating each section = v slow going, but i’m still enjoying the book!!

listened to “ragtime” while reading today and damn i always forget how sad my fav musicals are

i am enjoying!!

this is cool! some parts are more interesting than others. just read a poem about the triangle shirtwaist factory