Who: Zach Golden in conversation with Aaron Castillo-White

When: Sunday, July 9th, 11am -12pm PT

What: A conversation about 3rd Generation Theory, Digital Chasids, the Pandemic as cultural revolution, the historical tools that have preserved Yiddish and are giving way to the new Yiddish renaissance, and parallel movements around the world.

Why (Initial Questions): How did Yiddish move from culture to counter-culture and back again? What tools have Yiddishists used to keep the culture alive? What about other languages and cultural activists? Where are we seeing most of this growth in Yiddish? Is it really 3G? Is it 2nd generation looking to hear the language of their parents and grandparents? What are developing tools todays for Yiddish or other language activists? Who are some good people to look to that have been promoting Yiddish culture? (Cameron Bernstein, others?) How do you keep a culture or language alive? In the past, it was often implicit that culture or a language were defended by states, as the quote often misattributed to the YIddishist Max Weinriech goes, "A language is a dialect with an army and navy," and we have seen that much in the way of state formation in history was concentrated, initially at least, on more homogenous groups whether by shared culture, language, faith, or other identity marker.

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