Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complete lack of forethought and sensitivity on the part of the Harvard administration. All students, especially Chinese, have a right to feel indignant at this debacle. Surely, on the Jewish New Year, Harvard would never outfit Union workers with yamulkas and pass out Jewish New Year's songs in Hebrew. Yet the venerable administration feels it entirely appropriate to openly utilize and distribute paraphernalia which only serves to foster the kind of stereotypical perceptions which so many people have worked so hard to eliminate...
That process could have been the coup de grace for Yiddish, a fusion of German, Hebrew and Slavic languages that was the lingua franca of Ashkenazic Jews for most of the past millennium. In this century the language had already suffered the cataclysm of the Holocaust as well as the adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal...
Serotta, who concenentrated in social relations as an undergraduate at Harvard, received his masters degree in 1974 from the Jewish Institute of Religion and the Hebrew Union College...