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    1 year ago

    I’m aware of that all, also yes it has been dead. Like Latin or Ancient Greek.

    It is not like a bunch of zionists taught all the worlds’ Jews Hebrew, but if you put a German Jew and a Russian Jew in the same room, the only language they would both know is Hebrew.

    Yeah, if you put a German Jew and a Moroccan Jew, your results could have been not the same.

    Still analogous to Latin, though. Like if you compare Latin in Italy to Latin in Poland.

    pidgin dialects like Yiddish (and others).

    Yiddish is definitely not a pidgin, it’s a pretty functional Germanic language, and not too much further from Standard High German than German casually spoken in Vienna.

    Actually it’s much less of a pidgin to German than neo-Hebrew is a pidgin to Hebrew.

    It is not like a bunch of zionists taught all the worlds’ Jews Hebrew

    There were competing views of the future of European Jews as a culture and what modernity will be for them. For some the modern language to be standardized etc would be, again, Yiddish.