Re: "dictionary" vs. "hotel"

On 27 hein , 15:54, Marc <marc.ad...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7月26日, 午後4:44, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, but secular Israelis do. they represent a very large majority of
the population but must constantly kowtow to the tiny ultra-orthodox
minority. (Wasn't there a recent scrap over whether ambulances are
allowed to be driven on the Sabbath?)

Is Yiddish associated so closely and negatively with Orthodoxy in
Israel?

AFAIK Yiddish has always had negative associations in Israel.
Basically, it is the language of the ghetto and the shtetl, i.e. the
language of that social marginalization which the Jews wanted to get
rid of by creating a state of their own. Hebrew was the language of
the proud pioneer and the alert sentry who would never let himself be
dragged into a gas chamber without putting up a fight. Hebrew was the
Haganah, Hashomer Hatzair, Irgun Tz'vai Le'umi kind of language, and
Israeli nationalism has been at least to some extent been a conscious
negation of the "Yiddish" kind of Jewishness, in favour of the
Haganah, Hashomer Hatzair, Irgun Tz'vai Le'umi kind of Jewishness.
I.e. "we are not some puny ghetto yeshiva bukhers whom you can lock up
in a gas chamer, we are strong and well-trained soldiers with Uzis,
and we'll fight back if you bastards try to do us that gas chamber
thing once more."



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