"In The Name Of God We Will Succeed"
Meet The Blooming Grove Report, an official newsletter from the Village of South Blooming Grove, provided exclusively online for Yiddish speaking residents.
If a governing body wants to put out stuff in multiple languages? I think that’s great.
We are a large, beautifully diverse country, and not everyone speaks English.
So, if a governing body wants to put out stuff in Yiddish? That’s awesome.
Listen, we are a little less than a hundred years since the Nazis sent much of my Grandmother’s family to a death camp. (The rest of my family escaped Russia at various points in the late 19th and early 20th century due to antisemitism.)
The fact that Yiddish, the language that the Cook family spoke back in Galicia — What’s now parts of Western Ukraine and South Eastern Poland — is being used at all in the 21st Century is cool to see. My grandmother, if she were alive today, would be proud.
But you know what she wouldn’t like?
When a governing body puts out, as part of its official communications, stuff that says “The …