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...Westinghouse Science Talent Search and, after majoring in theoretical physics and ancient history, studied quantum gravitation with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. In 1988 he formed a financial-software firm, Wall Street Analytics, which made him wealthy, and began funding conservative think tanks. Unz, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household, says, "America is successful because we have assimilated immigrants...
...Talia Milgrom-Elcott '98, who is also a Crimson editor, started an institute for Jewish studies at Hillel. Sugarman says the institute offered classes that many people were interested in but were not part of the Harvard curriculum, such as elementary Yiddish or the development of Jewish law from Sinai to modernity...
...That's Yiddish for family. Trabish has used her online skills to keep her mishpocha network connected. It includes her three children, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, lots of nieces and nephews and some close friends. And she is keeping the network updated on her latest project: a family history starting with the move from Poland to Brooklyn. Everyone will get an e-mail copy, except for Trabish's two brothers and two sisters, who are still holding out on the revolution. "I am the oldest person in the family," she says impatiently, "and I use the computer. My nieces...
Wisse says the future of the Yiddish languageis uncertain because it suffered heavy blows inthe Holocaust as well as in other purges. InRussia, for instance, Stalin ordered the executionof Yiddish writers and intellectuals...
...Israel, Hebrew, not Yiddish, is Israel'smain language. In North America, Yiddish hasbecome virtually non-existent as Jews haveassimilated into their secular surroundings...