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Yiddish theater) he consciously toned down his criticism in the interests of keeping his job. Nonetheless, a group of party functionaries felt that Tsanin's fulsome praise of
Yiddish and the Eastern European Jewish culture that went with it went too far at suggesting an invidious comparison to the heritage of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East, and for that tried to get Tsanin fired. They found some support from the prime minister,
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reflects modern Hebrew usage. Reviews of it, however, have been mixed. In the words of one reviewer, "The author was a journalist and not a linguist or possessed of any deep knowledge of historical linguistics or of
Yiddish itself, and his dictionary reflects that fact: each entry and its translation, nothing more." To be fair, that reviewer has little good to say about any extant Yiddish-Hebrew dictionaries.
606:, who said about Tsanin, "I don't read that Lezte Neies paper, but I know its editor was once an anti-Zionist and I have no idea how he wound up in Israel." Ben Gurion's accusation was not implausible in view of Tsanin's own statement (see above) about "treif" Zionist newspapers. Nonetheless, Tsanin kept his job.
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was by then, as mentioned above, owned by a subsidiary of Mapai (the governing party at the time and long a leading force in the battle against
Yiddish). Though Tsanin, still editor-in-chief, had much to complain about on the language-war front (for example the government's policy of discouraging
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As of 2014, the
University of California, Berkeley, library holds nine distinct Tsanin books. These include novels, reflections on the condition of the Jewish people, collected essays, and a dictionary. The dictionary is notable as the first Yiddish-Hebrew (and Hebrew-Yiddish) dictionary that
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He authored some twenty more books, with a few translated to
English, Hebrew and French but the lion's share as yet available only in the original Yiddish. The account of his post-war mission to Poland has been noted above. Among his other books, especially notable is the story of his long
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In time, the government became more tolerant of
Yiddish. Tsanin's one-time protege Yitzhak Luden summed it up: "Tsanin symbolized Yiddish in the Jewish state, and the authorities' attitude to him was always an indication of its attitude to the Yiddish language."
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made establishing Hebrew among the many new immigrants a top priority. Yiddish was viewed as a threat to the nation's unity, and the early
Israeli state's uncertain commitment to press freedom provided a tool. Thus, in 1949, when Tsanin wished to convert
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, three languages competed for the loyalty of modernizing Jews in
Eastern Europe: Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew. The Zionist movement lined up behind Hebrew, and after the establishment of the State of
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from a weekly to a daily, he had to apply with the government for permission. Permission was granted to go to a three-day-a week format, but no further. Tsanin evaded this stricture by establishing a second thrice-weekly newspaper,
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itself kept on after Tsanin's retirement until 2006 when it succumbed, as had all its competitors already, to the dwindling population of
Yiddish speakers in Israel.
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where, apart from his literary pursuits, he was active in civic affairs. He co-founded Beit
Leivick (named for the writer
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