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For Some Ultra-Orthodox, There Can Be Only One Language

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Children in a Yiddish-speaking Talmud Torah school run by Kretshnif Hasidim in Rehovot, September 18, 2017.
Children in a Yiddish-speaking Talmud Torah school run by Kretshnif Hasidim in Rehovot, September 18, 2017.
Children in a Yiddish-speaking Talmud Torah school run by Kretshnif Hasidim in Rehovot, September 18, 2017. Credit: Gil Cohen-Magen
Children in a Yiddish-speaking Talmud Torah school run by Kretshnif Hasidim in Rehovot, September 18, 2017. Credit: Gil Cohen-Magen

As members of insular Hasidic communities integrate into Israeli society, spiritual leaders are waging a campaign to preserve Yiddish

Aaron Rabinowitz

Attendees of this year’s Purim party hosted by Nadvorna Hasidim in Bnei Brak got an unexpected welcome at the door: They were told to take off their costumes. The organizers were referring to the holiday accessories, purchased with hard-earned money or produced with much labor. The costume in question to could not be seen; only heard. The forbidden costume was the Hebrew language.

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