Towelie
Banned
It was well known that the leaders of the Jewish settlement project in the Holy Land, particularly after the Second Aliyah, were known to have encouraged the secular usage of the Hebrew language and went as far as to openly try to stamp out the use of Yiddish. Only the most religious communities kept the language, because they wanted to preserve Hebrew for religious use.
This gradually became the norm in Israel over time, and successive waves of immigrants and refugees assimilated by learning Hebrew.
What if this never happened? What if there was no push to use Hebrew as a common secular language, and the Ashkenazis who made up the Second Aliyah went on with speaking mostly Yiddish? How would a language barrier between Ashkenazis and later Mizrahi immigrants reflect itself in the underlying racial tension that still exists to this day?
This gradually became the norm in Israel over time, and successive waves of immigrants and refugees assimilated by learning Hebrew.
What if this never happened? What if there was no push to use Hebrew as a common secular language, and the Ashkenazis who made up the Second Aliyah went on with speaking mostly Yiddish? How would a language barrier between Ashkenazis and later Mizrahi immigrants reflect itself in the underlying racial tension that still exists to this day?