{"id":30311,"date":"2012-01-15T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/yiddish_language_seeing_revival_at_colleges\/"},"modified":"2012-01-15T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:49:14","slug":"yiddish_language_seeing_revival_at_colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30311","title":{"rendered":"Yiddish language seeing revival at colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: &#8220;Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In English, the lyrics mean: &#8220;When the rebbe dances, so do all the Hasidim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t music appreciation or even a class at a synagogue. It&#8217;s the first semester of Yiddish at Emory University in Atlanta &#8212; one of a handful of college programs across the country studying the Germanic-based language of Eastern European Jews&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/15\/yiddish-language-seeing-revival-at-colleges\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: &#8220;Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!&#8221; In English, the lyrics mean: &#8220;When the rebbe dances, so do all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30311\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,111,429,155,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}