Red-Tinted Yiddish
How the USSR tried to Sovietize the Jews using their own language and traditions March 2007
Jews who hate Yiddish and Yiddish culture—a considerable number since the 18th century, most of them native speakers—are often at pains to point out that the use of this purely tribal language forms a barrier between the Jews and their gentile neighbours, a hurdle to mutual understanding that often contributes to the growth of anti-Semitism and virtually always gets in the way of Jewish…