From Our Yiddish Treasure

Henche Silberstein, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In spite of living in a neighborhood where there weren’t many Jewish people and no Jewish schools, her family and friends spoke Yiddish, and therefore, Yiddish was her first language. Since childhood she was obsessed with the beauty of the Yiddish language,and therefore, she was constantly enriching herself in the Jewish culture and literature and transmitting all these emotions into drawings and paintings. After graduating from the primary Jewish school, she entered The Jewish Lerer (teacher) Seminar”, where she became a teacher in the Sholen Aleijem School” in Buenos Aires. There she spread the wealth of the Jewish culture to her students. She lived six years in Israel and now is retired and living in the United States, evoking this beautiful language, and decided to write this book so all the richness, folklore, humor and spirit of this language would not be lost. She hopes that Yiddish together with Hebrew will be the bond between Jews all over the world.Yacub, Julio is the author of 'From Our Yiddish Treasure', published 2005 under ISBN 9781594531286 and ISBN 1594531285.