The Trial of Shomer
The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:
“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward movement. Three giants in Poland—Abramovitsh, Linetski, Goldfaden—and Isaac Meir Dik in Lithuania boldly stood Yiddish on its own two feet, and carried…
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