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How Yiddish Became the Language of Political Organizing for Russian Jews
Smuggled political literature from Jewish New Yorkers helped.
As large numbers of Jews began leaving Russia for the U.S. in the late 1800s, they began to produce pamphlets, newspapers, and books about political organizing in their native Yiddish. Some, seeking to help their coreligionists back home, began to smuggle these works back into Russia, where the government strictly forbade them. As Julia Métraux points out, not all East European Jews spoke Yiddish, and Jewish revolutionaries living under the tsars tended to prefer Russian, but they soon discovered that
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How Yiddish Became the Language of Political Organizing for Russian Jews
Smuggled political literature from Jewish New Yorkers helped.