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May 5, 2022
How a Leading Hebraist Party Boosted Israel’s Yiddish Press
The story of Dos vort and Di tsayt.
Beginning in 1949 and throughout the 1950s, Israeli leaders frequently pressured the citizens of their new state to speak and read Hebrew. But as Rachel Rojanski documents, they also recognized the importance of catering to the country’s Yiddish-reading public. Because of this, the ruling socialist party, Mapai (the precursor of today’s Labor), “became the first public body in Israel to publish a Yiddish newspaper.” Despite the fact that Mapai’s “leaders held the reins of power . . . and spearheaded the country’s militant Hebraist policy,” she notes, they ultimately published two.
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How a Leading Hebraist Party Boosted Israel’s Yiddish Press
The story of Dos vort and Di tsayt.