Mendy cahan biography

Mendy Cahan is an actor, singer, and collector of books, all in Yiddish… He has stored 90,000 of them in an unlikely location in the Tel Aviv bus station. The piles of accumulated books seem to hold up the walls.

And it is in this piece of Eastern Europe stuck in a zone of the Middle East that those who frequent this place gather to revive a Yiddish language that has become a minority in the middle of Hebrew. Visit the Yung Yiddish and meet its creator.

 

 

The Tel Aviv bus station is a huge seven-story building, a colossus of dirty concrete, lying in the south of the city, not so old but already decrepit.

Surrounded by a ramp where noisy and polluting buses circulate, this hub absorbs and pours out a continuous flow of passengers into a maze of escalators and corridors lined with cheap shops, like a multi-store souk. Generally hated by the inhabitants of the city who demand its leveling, this vociferous giant knows nonetheless how to be welcoming: in its disu