About Us 
Project ייִדיש לעבט (yidish lebt, eng. Yiddish is alive) is secular and non-political, international, though the project was created in Poland, uniting young artists, linguists and scholars of Yiddish, wanting to prove that this language is still living and fruitful. As a group we are not tied to any organization, school or religious community. Currently we are in the process of registering our Foundation, which will enable us to realize our goals. Among us are Jews and Gentiles, Orthodox and atheists. What unites us is a love for art and this language.
Yiddish
Language, which before World War II has used throughout the world the vast majority of Jews, reached the apogee of its development on the Polish territory. Here, in fact it gave the most prominent artists – writers and poets whose achievements are still being translated into all languages of the world. As the only “language without a land” it was before the war represented in the PEN Club and in 1978 was symbolically awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for Isaac Bashevis Singer – one of the last great writers in that language.
Inextricably linked and mutually permeating the culture and the Polish language is now in our country, unfortunately, forgotten. A few attempts of its revitalization take place, but recently more and more common, as yet ommitting Poland, where the Jewish milieus tend more toward the Hebrew language, forgetting about the whole legacy of Yiddish and its related enormous cultural heritage.
Our goal
We do not have anything against the Hebrew language. However, we believe that it is not proper, here in Poland, to marginalize the role of language, which historically is associated with this place. It is not right to push it, only to the role of folk queer or, by contrast, put his bronze statues – as they do to dead. The above-mentioned Isaac Bashevis Singer, receiving the award, said: “Yiddish is not dead”. We, more than 30 years later, are claiming “Yiddish lives”.
Therefore, on the one hand, we want to disseminate knowledge about this language (still a lot of prejudices, stereotypes and false perceptions are circulating), on the other hand, we want to assist in the acquisition of practical skills to use Yiddish language. However, perhaps the most important mission of the project, to be our dreams come true is to organize and support cultural initiatives not only inspired by the Yiddish, but it created on its basis, and most importantly, in itself – in Yiddish! So that the language actually lived. In art, and among people, every day and on special occasions, among Jews and non-Jews, if not on the street, and in the salons! It must live. Long live! Yidish lebt!
