Out of Thin Air

At our confab last night people were addressing the audience in Yiddish and talking among themselves in Yiddish. It seemed a little like a Star Trek convention. It is genuinely great to revive the language. But there is no context, no street to talk in, no marketplace. A young Austrian man is doing his alternate military service here. It seems that the Holocaust is in a separate service category. I can only imagine how that came about. His fresh face is welcome, regardless.