Word: secularization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...center's mission of salvaging a vanishing culture. In 1980, when he was 24, Lansky founded the center because he feared what would happen as the last generation of native Yiddish speakers began to die -- not ultra-Orthodox Jews who still speak Yiddish but the heirs to the essentially secular Yiddish culture of Europe and North America, which the ultra-Orthodox reject. The libraries of these aged people, he worried, would be thrown out, and a world would be lost...
...crust and style to pinpoint evil in an age of moral relativism, and he is not talking about Gordon Gekko's affirmative views on a greedy decade. The villains are the tyrants of both the left and the right who have perpetrated outrages in the name of the modern secular state...
...changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory, information more powerful than military hardware. For many years, the Soviets lived in paranoid isolation, fearful of Western culture (an old Russian tradition) and estranged from it in somewhat the way that Ayatullah Khomeini's Iranians quarantined themselves from the secular poisons of the West. Peasant cultures shrink from foreign contamination...