The World in Words 83: Arabic grafitti in Moorish Spain and the fall and rise of Yiddish Part 2
The Alhambra in Grenada, the crowning glory of Moorish Spain, has more than 10,000 prayers and poems in Arabic inscribed on its pillars and walls. We hear about a high-tech effort to decipher and catalog the inscriptions. Then it’s the second part of the BBC’s documentary on Yiddish. Reporter Dennis Marks takes us to New York, where the language is undergoing a modest revival: among Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, with a family who text message in transliterated Yiddish, and with musician Alicia Svigals and novelist Dara Horn who are re-interpreting the old language of Eastern Europe’s shtetls for new generations.
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