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Robert Kaplan speaks at Annual AYIC Dinner
Says "Rosenfeld is Diaspora's Choice" for Consort
Sulari, Duchy of Suldanor
January 1, 5703


Kaplan gives enthusiastic speech at this year's Annual Dinner held at Sun Coast

Mr. Robert Kaplan, Director of the Anantonese Yeudi Interests Committee said "Her Imperial Majesty could not have chosen a better partner than Elliot Rosenfeld." His glowing ode was part of his keynote speech at the Annual New Year's Day Dinner, held this year in Sulari. This major confab and fundraiser raised AYIC more than ₭7 million Imperials, most of which will be dedicated to the operations of the Anantonese Redn Language Learning Institute in the capital, which has been opened for seven years and has graduated 4 classes of 185 Students in this time, many of which have been students of language and scholars of Yeudi religious texts.

Kaplan's statements were reflective of the prevailing attitudes expressed in a new national survey of Yeudis across the Empire who were asked how they viewed Mr. Rosenfeld and his engagement to Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Carolina II Ananto. Yeudis across the nation are reportedly very excited that a Yeudi is engaged to Her Imperial Majesty, and the vast majority of those interviewed about Mr. Rosenfeld said they found him to be interesting and intelligent, and good public representation of Kalistani Yeudis. Interestingly enough most Yeudis in Kalistan said they believed their was no contradiction between Rosenfeld's Yeudi cultural heritage and his Brethrenist faith and fully support his marrying a non-Yeudi, arguing that the cultural prohibition against marrying non-Yeudis that exists in other nations has never really existed in Kalistan. "There aren't enough of us for us to make a big deal about it anyway," said one survey respondent.

Kaplan's effusive words for the fiancé of Her Imperial Majesty, were wrapped in a call for more support and broader usage of Redn in Kalistan. "Elliot Rosenfeld is clearly the preferred choice of the Kalistani Yeudi diaspora," he declared. "He is a man committed to learning and to honesty and integrity. He is a man who learns about his culture, and does not apologize to anyone for being who he is. His commitment to this organization in Razar and now in the Capital is also exemplary: He was always the first to offer his time and his hands on any project the Razar AYIC put him to, whether it was helping our elders, or translating documents, or writing letters to our foreign supporters, he was first in line, and we are so proud to have him in the Capital continuing his work."

Kaplan continued as he pivoted to the Redn Language Learning Institute in Kaliburg. "To our real point this evening, Mr. Rosenfeld himself is furthermore the example of an independent scholar, and since moving to the capital, has actually taken the opportunity to enroll in language classes to improve both his fluency and his literacy. He is the example for every single Yeudi in this nation- It is important that we recapture our own language, the language of diaspora Yeudis for centuries before it faded from our memory. This is what our language sounded like when it travelled from Majatra, into Artania and then to Seleya and then to Kalistan. When we started, there were less than 25,000 actual fully conversational speakers of Redn. But Yeudis like Mr. Rosenfeld took the time and the effort and with the discipline of a man who is starved for the culture of his ancestors, is now learning his language, and his heritage and his own history. He is a credit to his people, and will make a fantastic partner for our Empress."

Kaplan said that all students study for free thanks to donations from AYIC supporters across Kalistan. "We started this program with a building and a dream," said Kaplan. "And through generous donations from our supporters, we reached our endowment goal in just 4 years. Meanwhile, we were able to hire staff and begin conducting our classes in Redn writing and reading, conversational fluency, and literature. Each course takes about 3 years to complete. Our next step is to offer Redn in schools for they goys to elect Redn as a language credit too. We are currently working with the public schools in Kaliburg-Port Davon School System to have a pilot Redn program citywide by 7205."

Kaplan also noted that the new director of House Ananto, Lady Christina Ananto-McKinley said House Ananto has committed to contribute ₭10 Million to AYIC's Redn Language programs over the next ten years. "Lady Ananto said this was the first of the support AYIC can expect from the Royal Family, and it is their hope that AYIC can expand to other Yeudi Diaspora nations to help them either recapture Redn as a spoken language or to to introduce it abroad as a common language among diaspora Yeudis, so even if we are from different nations, we still have the ability to communicate with one another in undzer eygener schprak."

Kaplan believes that with enough work, and with the proper kind of support, including the kind of support the Consort to be and the Empress are showing for the effort, Redn can be reignited across northern Seleya and Artania, recovering what was essentially a lost language for Yeudi populations across Terra. "I mean: its even possible. Can you imagine? What if one day, we opened a Redn Language school in Beiteynu/Amudim? I can only dream. May I live so long that my eyes can see such a day!" He then sighed, and smiled and declared, "Mir iudis lebn aoyf khlumus. But at least we have true friends once more in Kaliburg," by which he meant in the Royal Family.

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