Sophie Lazar, MPH
@sel-lzr.bsky.social
epidemiologist & citizen of 🌏
lol, defunding the study of Yiddish is like, the most OG Zionist thing you can do.
![Zionism
Palestine
Anti-Yiddish sentiment was common within the Zionist movement in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. Because of Eastern European Jewish immigration, Palestine had a sizeable population of Yiddish speakers. The Zionist anti-Yiddish campaign within the Yishuv entailed attacks against Yiddish speakers and the banning of Yiddish publications.[5] In 1930, Zionists affiliated with the Army for the Defense of the Hebrew Language stormed a cinema in Tel Aviv and disrupted a screening of Mayn Yidishe Mame (“My Jewish Mother”), an early example of Yiddish "talkie" cinema.[6] The Jewish Labor Bund denounced the Zionist movement's anti-Yiddish campaign in Palestine.[7]
Israel
Anti-Yiddishism was once official Israeli government policy and cultural sentiment within Israeli culture discouraged the use of Yiddish. However, since the 1980s there has been a revival of Yiddish in Israel.[8][9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tswhr6eelopf4epq77mddhik/bafkreiehyjjrgr3mhwqczio3w6owrueoih5dn35lskykpxxxbtiru3gexy@jpeg)
December 6, 2024 at 4:18 PM
lol, defunding the study of Yiddish is like, the most OG Zionist thing you can do.