Daber Ivri: The War Hebrew Waged on Yiddish

The streets of Tel Aviv where you could be shouted down, spat at or shoved for speaking the wrong Jewish language.

Playlist by @kibbutz_dialect

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Why didn't Yiddish become Israel's Official Language? — History With Hilbert
  2. “Forget about Your Old Language and Country and Learn Hebrew”: My First Impressions of Israel — Yiddish Book Center
  3. Keeping Yiddish, Learning Hebrew: Stories of Language in a Kibbutz — Yiddish Book Center
  4. Linguistic Diversity in Palestine of the 40s — Yiddish Book Center
  5. The Trouble With the Melting Pot: The Rapid Decline of Second Languages in the United States — Yiddish Book Center
  6. "Yiddish!? What Do You Want Yiddish For?" - Attitudes toward Yiddish in Israel — Yiddish Book Center
  7. A Yiddish Radio Show in Israel — Yiddish Book Center
  8. Yiddish in Israel — Yiddish Book Center
  9. They Took My Passport: A Yiddish Speaker Visits Israel — Yiddish Book Center
  10. How Chava Turniansky Feels About Yiddish in Israel Today — Yiddish Book Center
  11. Popularity of Yiddish in Israel Today — Yiddish Book Center
  12. "Language of the Diaspora": Speaking Hebrew or Yiddish in Israel — Yiddish Book Center