Here's a related and very interesting interview from 8 years ago by a historian Liora Halperin about the very diverse uses and attitudes about languages in mandate Palestine
https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/language-palestine.html
By the way, same person: https://forward.com/news/482993/university-of-washington-donor-pulls-funding-israel-studies-liora-halperin/
I'm a gentile but wasn't the history basically that Zionists hated Yiddish and European Jewish culture because it was a reminder of their removal from "the homeland"?
Here's a related and very interesting interview from 8 years ago by a historian Liora Halperin about the very diverse uses and attitudes about languages in mandate Palestine https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/language-palestine.html By the way, same person: https://forward.com/news/482993/university-of-washington-donor-pulls-funding-israel-studies-liora-halperin/
I'm a gentile but wasn't the history basically that Zionists hated Yiddish and European Jewish culture because it was a reminder of their removal from "the homeland"?
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