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What we have here is Krav Maga (pronounced krahv ma-gah), the brutally efficient self-defense system created by the Israeli Defense Forces and currently infiltrating America's fitness industry. Even as crime drops in most big cities, Krav Maga (Hebrew for "contact combat") is quickly gaining ground in urban gyms...
...came from the depressed depths of small-town Polish-Jewish life, which he left behind in 1906. Inspired by a Hebrew-Zionist upbringing, shocked by anti-Semitic pogroms in Eastern Europe, he went to Turkish Palestine "to build it and be rebuilt by it," as was the motto of those days. He became a pioneer, a farmhand, active with early Zionist-socialist groups. At age 19 he was what he would remain all his life: a secular Jewish nationalist who combined Jewish Messianic visions with socialist ideals, a man with fierce ambition for leadership, extraordinary tactical-political skills...
Wisse's current course focuses on the changes that have occurred in Jewish literature over the last century, as the number of Jews able to speak Yiddish and Hebrew has declined drastically...
...20th century, Jews are born into a variety of languages," Wisse says. "Many of them no longer have access to Yiddish or Hebrew, that is, to a Jewish language, and if they want to write at all, they have to write in the language that [has become] theirs...
...Israel, Hebrew, not Yiddish, is Israel'smain language. In North America, Yiddish hasbecome virtually non-existent as Jews haveassimilated into their secular surroundings...