Wasn't use of Yiddish banned, or at least discouraged, in the early days of Israel, because they wanted to wipe out that specific national identity in favor of a pan-Jewish Hebrew-speaking one?
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> And yet, one of the greatest problems in the
> founding of the Zionist
> state was to get the "Jewish people" to be one
> people, rather than the
> dozens of people with dozens of different cultural
> practices (and
> languages) issuing from all of europe and the middle
> east.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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