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speakers. Besides, don't forget that Hebrew of the day is completely devoid of native-speaking content creators (authors, jornos, playwrights, you name it). Al off them are former Yiddish- or Russian- (as in case of national theater) speakers. Most of them are likely to switch back to Yiddish to pursue greener pastures of established market. In this situation, best case scenario for Hebrew would be a role enjoyed by Gaelic in OTL Ireland. Everyone study it in school, nobody use it to conduct any real-life business.
Let Ezrah open the Technion half-dozen years earlier and German would likely replace Hebrew as a language of the learned part of Yishuv, with Yiddish being a vernacular, street-level lingua franca. Just for sheer fun, let Technion adopt Yiddish alphabet as a nod to history. Then, after Holocaust, Yishuv is likely to give a name "Yiddish" to a "language of Technion". After 1948 new language would be ruthlessly rammed down the throats of waves of new immigrants, exactly as Hebrew was IOTL.The cornerstone was laid in 1912, but studies only began 12 years later, following an intense debate over the language of instruction. Ezrah deemed Modern Hebrew inappropriate for scientific instruction, and demanded that German be used instead. However, in the aftermath of World War I and the decline of Germany's influence as a European superpower, Hebrew was adopted
Technically, Yiddish vs. Hebrew debate had been settled in Yishuv (Jewish community of Palestine) before WWII. Hebrew was to become a revived language of revived Jewish nation. All education since mid-1920s was in Hebrew. However, there's declaration and then there's math. Would Peel Comissions proposals of 1937 be implemented, EE Jewry could end up in Palestine instead of Auschwitz. In such a case, we have several hundred thousands of Hebrew speakers (mostly kids and teenagers plus some of their parents who chose to speak Hebrew out of ideological drive) diluted by 203 millions (Soviet Jews are dead anyway, neither they did consider themselves in danger being shielded by Red Army, nor Stalin would ever be willing to let them go) millions of native (or semi-native, assimilation went far among pre-war EE Jewry) YiddishThe main problem with having Yiddish as the national language of Israel is the Holocaust. The majority of the Jewish victims were members of Eastern and Central European Jewry, the stronghold of Yiddish. ...
Or you could pull the irony card and have the Nazis deport Jews to Palestine (like they thought of doing before deciding on Madagascar prior to Wannsee).
speakers. Besides, don't forget that Hebrew of the day is completely devoid of native-speaking content creators (authors, jornos, playwrights, you name it). Al off them are former Yiddish- or Russian- (as in case of national theater) speakers. Most of them are likely to switch back to Yiddish to pursue greener pastures of established market. In this situation, best case scenario for Hebrew would be a role enjoyed by Gaelic in OTL Ireland. Everyone study it in school, nobody use it to conduct any real-life business.