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>>I understand your point and the sadness of losing a language of your ancestry. Kind of like my people lost Yiddish (that was spoken in my home when I was growing up).
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>One of the biggest regrets of my life (and I think many of my generation) is that I never learned Yiddish.

My husband's grandmother couldn't understand that in my family, Yiddish was _never_ spoken. My mother and her siblings came from Germany; German Jews spoke German, not Yiddish. On my father's side, one side of the family has been here since the early 19th century. I learned recently that my father's mother (who left the Ukraine at 5) did speak Yiddish, but in her adult family, there was no one for her to speak it, too. I don't know whether she spoke it with her parents, since they were gone long before I was born.

IAC, while Yiddish as a spoken language is being lost, thanks to the Yiddish Book Center, the written language is being preserved.

Tamar