Yugntruf
Yugntruf – Youth for Yiddish is an organization of young Yiddish-speaking adults that is dedicated to the spread of the Yiddish language through various programs and events. It was founded by David Roskies and Gavi Trunk under the guidance of the late Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter in 1964.
Name
Yugntruf means “call of youth”and “call to youth”.
It combines the words and .
Activities
It hosts events such as- the, a day in New York in which programs are run in Yiddish.
- the, in which groups of Yiddish speakers come together to read and discuss in Yiddish. means “environment”.
- the week-long retreat, held in Copake, New York, in which participants spend an entire week conversing completely in Yiddish.