{"id":91254,"date":"2021-12-09T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=91254"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T07:09:22","slug":"05-00-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=91254","title":{"rendered":"A Hidden Yiddish Library in Tel Aviv\u2019s Bus Station Faces Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>A Hidden Yiddish Library in Tel Aviv\u2019s Bus Station Faces Closure<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

i24 News <\/strong>and<\/span> Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yung Yiddish at Tel Aviv\u2019s Central Bus Station. Photo: i24 News \/ Screenshot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Tel Aviv\u2019s Central Bus Station has a reputation with Israelis as being ugly and dysfunctional. Yet the vast building contains hidden gems.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those, tucked away on the fifth floor, is Yung Yiddish, a library and culture center owned by Mendy Cahan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cahan is an actor, former radio host, and expert on Yiddish literature and culture. He\u2019s the son of Holocaust survivors and grew up speaking Yiddish as his first language.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thirty years ago, he began collecting Yiddish literature to save it from being thrown out<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was working at the radio as a news reader, and after one time I was reading the news in Yiddish, I said, \u2018Whoever has Yiddish books, I come and fetch them.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Books came pouring in, and in 2006, his vast collection moved to the Central Bus Station, where it has grown to 80,000 books, magazines, and other Yiddish publications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yung Yiddish is not just a library, but a space to keep Yiddish culture and language alive. While Yiddish is mainly spoken in religious communities, this space provides a rare exception.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Yung Yiddish makes quite a big difference for Yiddish culture in Israel,\u201d Cahan said to i24NEWS<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole range that we have from Hassidim, the ultra-Orthodox, to the completely secular, and the LGBT \u2026 made the conversation much livelier, not as academic or something of the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Central Bus Station is set to be demolished<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> leaving Yung Yiddish with nowhere else to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel that the closure is imminent, and we need a solution \u2026 We really need public support.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yung Yiddish has been ordered to close its doors on Dec. 5, a deadline which might be postponed as the closing for the bus station is delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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