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In the early days of Israel, my wife's Yiddish-speaking forebears actively avoided passing it down It was, to them, a sort of gesture of commitment to a new (o
by neutronicus 5y ago
In the early days of Israel, my wife's Yiddish-speaking forebears actively avoided passing it down
It was, to them, a sort of gesture of commitment to a new (old) beginning
- nerdponx 5y agoI know that this was "a thing" among American Jews as well in the first half of the 20th century. Yiddish was the language you spoke when you didn't want the kids to know what you were saying, and you didn't pass it down because you wanted to assimilate.