people keep asking me why I’m doing this evening on the 25 in so many languages.  well one reason is simply that 3 of the books that came out during COVID have been dual language in other languages – french-english, yiddish-english, danish-english.  The other languages have given me perspectives on my own language, but they have also helped me become more aware of the multilingualism that seems to become more common in Israel.  The fear of Yiddish, for example, has disappeared.  Arabic appears more often in Hebrew, and there is much more interest in the language.  French too.