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While there is a bit of Ladino media in Israel, overall among the Ladino community immigration to Israel has been seen as the death of the language, because the
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
While there is a bit of Ladino media in Israel, overall among the Ladino community immigration to Israel has been seen as the death of the language, because there is pressure there to assimilate to the Hebrew mainstream. (This is analogous to the death of Yiddish in many contexts that it had prewar, because all those Yiddish speakers switched to Hebrew after migrating to Israel, except for the Haredim who do not use Yiddish outside their own narrow contexts.)
Because Ladino speakers remain an Other in the European diaspora and can therefore draw on more minority-language support, etc., they have a way to maintain their identity that they would not have if they made aliyah.
- man-and-laptop 8y agoThe Haredim do mainly speak Yiddish. They use Hebrew only in prayer and religious study.
- Mediterraneo10 8y agoThe Haredim speak Yiddish, but they no longer use Yiddish in the whole range of social contexts that prewar Jews did. There was a vibrant prewar Yiddish film and theatre scene, for example, but the Haredim today aren’t interested in that kind of thing, to put it mildly. As a cultural language in Israel, Yiddish is dead, and Hebrew has taken its place.