Yiddish @ Sydney

There is an interesting article on the demise of landsmanshaftn -- organisations set up by migrants to help other migrants (and their families) from their hometown/areas. The problem is, as the article points out, many of these organisations' members are dying (or moving to Florida) and their children/grandchildren are not continuing their memberships.

Question is: what happens when this occurs? The prominent worry, for this particular landsmanshaft, is what will happen to the cemetary? Who will take care of the plots? Etc.

Last Call for Landsmanshaften

New film by Dani Rosenberg, starring Itay Tiran, follows a group of Holocaust refugees as they become soldiers in Israel's War of Independence. Going for realism, the film's dialoguie is in Yiddish.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1014139.html