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The Haredim do mainly speak Yiddish. They use Hebrew only in prayer and religious study.
by man-and-laptop 8y ago
The 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.