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Yiddish Is a Language of Faith - Meir Y. Soloveichik, Commentary Magazine


Yiddish Is a Language of Faith
Jewish Commentary
Early in 2021, a niche online argument made its way onto the front page of the
Wall Street Journal, complete with a catchy headline: “Designing a Flag for Yiddish Takes Chutzpah.” The cause of the disagreement was the announcement by Duolingo, a website for learning languages, that it would release a course for Yiddish. Usually, the symbol for a language would be the flag of its home country: France, Italy, Japan. Yiddish, however, was a language of exile; the Israeli flag would represent Hebrew, not Yiddish. What, then, should serve as its symbol? Suggestions abounded, including that the website should “just put a bagel on it,” or that it should feature a “fiddler on a roof.” ....

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