Exile Language
William Pimlott: Fondness for Yiddish, 23 September 2021
Yiddish in Israel: A History
by Rachel Rojanski.
Indiana, 319 pp., £32, January 2020,978 0 253 04515 7 Show More
by Rachel Rojanski.
Indiana, 319 pp., £32, January 2020,
“... narrative about the position of Yiddish in the early years of the Israeli state, one that Rachel Rojanski’s book sets out to question. By 1950, even Ben-Gurion admitted that the truth was more complex: ‘We were forced to be fanatical about Hebrew because the revival of the language was almost unnatural … Now I am able and ready to discuss ... ”
