A collection of translated diaries, historical records, essays on food heritage, and community recollections documenting the ongoing voice of the Krymchak people.
This is reprinted from the foreword of the translated works of The Krymack Language, by translator Bethany Batya Klein, who has dedicated the translation and this site to the memory of David Rebi. There are moments in history where the entire survival of an ancient people — centuries of folklore, the prayers their grandmothers whispered over Shabbat candles, the lullabies mothers sang into the dark — do not rest on empires, libraries, or governments. They rest on the memory o
