zdad,
my mother’s side was avowedly yekkish/western European.
they held Yiddish is strong contempt.
Yiddish encapsulated a whole modus vivendi and dialectic .Even for those who were running away from it.Show me something comparable that has crossed the seas and oceans
small humourous far from Holy sample: the Forverts, Yiddish newspaper publish August 27, 1909 article on baseball for greenhorn immigrants:
/Translated/
..A similar scene takes place every day in another place – in the Washington Heights. And the exact same thing goes on in Brooklyn, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh, in Boston, in Baltimore, in St. Louis, in Chicago – in every city in the United States. And the newspapers print the results of these games and describe what happened and tens of millions of people run to read it with gusto. They talk about it and they debate the issues..
So what are the fundamentals of the game?
Two parties participate in the game. Each party is comprised of nine people ..
One of them throws the ball to the other, who has to grab it. The first one is called the “pitcher” (thrower) and the second is called the “catcher” (grabber).
Each time, the “catcher” throws the ball back to the “pitcher.” The reader may therefore ask, if so, doesn’t it happen backwards each time – the catcher becomes a pitcher and the pitcher becomes a catcher? Why should each one be called with a specific name – one pitcher and one catcher?
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[‘Baseball appears to have been overall one of those rare matters upon which both rabbanim and secular Yiddish cartoonists could agree upon. It is thus with great sympathy that one of the cartoonists working for Der groyser kundes cartoons portray the difficulty Orthodox rabbis in America had in trying to convince American Jewish boys to attend heder. Der kundes, a very popular and very secular satire oriented to Left Labor Zionism, lamented the disinterest the lunkheaded, .., baseball-obsessed Jewish youth. ]