Yugntruf
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Yugntruf – Youth for Yiddish (Script error: No such module "Lang".) is an organization of young Yiddish-speaking adults that is dedicated to the spread of the Yiddish language through various programs and events. It was founded by David Roskies and Gavi Trunk under the guidance of the late Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter in 1964.
Name
Yugntruf (Script error: No such module "Lang".) means “call of [the] youth”[1] and “call to youth”.[2][3]
It combines the words Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Wikt-lang, “youth; the young”) and Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., “call”, cognate of German Template:Wikt-lang).[3]
Activities
It hosts events such as
- the Yidish-Tog (“Yiddish Day”), a day in New York in which programs are run in Yiddish.
- the Svive Project, in which groups of Yiddish speakers come together to read and discuss in Yiddish. Script error: No such module "lang". (Template:Wikt-lang) means “environment”.
- the week-long Yidish-Vokh (“Yiddish Week”) retreat, held in Copake, New York, in which participants spend an entire week conversing completely in Yiddish.
In addition, Yugntruf sponsors a literary magazine as well as the publishing of books for children in Yiddish. Many members of Yugntruf have decided to raise their children as Yiddish speakers.
References
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- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Translation: “A small comment about the name Yugntruf: Many have asked us what a "truf" is. The name comprises the two elements yugnt and ruf, which means ‘a call to [the] youth’ (a ruf tsu der yugnt).”
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External reference
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