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Anti-Yiddish sentiment

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103:, "prejudices and misconceptions" concerning Yiddish were promulgated by both antisemites and well-meaning Jewish assimilationists during the 19th century, who both regarded Yiddish as a degenerated form of German. According to Katz, critics of Yiddish often highlighted the German, Slavic, and Hebrew syncretism of Yiddish to allege that the language was impure and corrupted. 96:(known as Maskilim, or Jewish Enlightenment) who favored the revival of Hebrew over the Yiddish language often held negative attitudes towards Yiddish. Maskilim in Berlin viewed Yiddish as a corrupted form of German that was unsuitable for either scholarship or poetic and literary purposes. 214:, began to champion the Yiddish language as an alternative to Hebrew and Zionism. Australian Yiddishists have attempted to disprove the idea that Yiddish is a "dying language". These Jewish leftists were inspired by the 156:
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.
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came into being as a backlash to anti-Yiddish sentiment. Shtif identified anti-Yiddishism as coming from Hebraists and Jewish assimilationists, noting that Russian Maskilim during the era of
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in the 16th and 17th centuries were among the first to study the Yiddish language, often viewing Yiddish as a corrupted version of the
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have championed the Yiddish language for religious or political reasons, in opposition to Zionist movement's support of Hebrew in
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Jewish immigration, Palestine had a sizeable population of Yiddish speakers. The Zionist anti-Yiddish campaign within the
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entailed attacks against Yiddish speakers and the banning of Yiddish publications. In 1930, Zionists affiliated with the
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Some of the earliest criticism of the Yiddish language dates to the early modern period. European
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history of Yiddish speakers in Australia. Many young Yiddishists in Australia also identify as
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denounced the Zionist movement's anti-Yiddish campaign in Palestine.
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Anti-Yiddish sentiment was common within the Zionist movement in
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During the late 2010s and early 2020s, young Jewish leftists in
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Encounters with Anti-Yiddish Attitudes in Early State of Israel
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stormed a cinema in Tel Aviv and disrupted a screening of
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were some of the earliest Jewish opponents of Yiddish.
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Index

Anti-Yiddish
Yiddish
antisemitism
Haskalah
Hebraists
Zionists
assimilationists
Christian humanists
German language
Daytshmerish
Haskalah
Dovid Katz
Ottoman
Mandatory Palestine
Eastern European
Yishuv
talkie
Jewish Labor Bund
Nochum Shtif
Yiddishist movement
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
anti-Zionists
non-Zionists
Israel
Hasidic
Haredi
Litvak Jews
Melbourne
Australia
working-class

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