"Modern Hebrew" is a Zionist invention:
- It was created by Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, a notorious Zionist and a founder of "Hebrewism", a notion that Hebrew should be the only language that Jews should use, not Aramaic or Yiddish. (As opposed to Yiddishism)
- It is mostly spoken by "Israelis"
- At the time of Hebrew revival, most Jews opposed using holy language for discussing everyday things and preferred Yiddish as a national language of Jewish people
But can a language by itself be Zionist? It is a Zionist invention, it is used by Zionists, but does speaking it make you a Zionist? Should Jews worldwide learn and use Yiddish and Aramaic as a national language instead of "Modern Hebrew"? I mean, "Modern Hebrew" is so artificial, it didn't have curse words at the beginning, so Zionists sweared at Yiddishists in Yiddish!
P.S. Apologies to many smart people here bothering you with my midnight thoughts
So, what are we to do?
the Hebrew language to death?
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Honestly, if it's possible, any Jews of conscience might as well clean house and redefine the language, and to an extent, the culture that surrounds (of course, that will require a change in the economic mode that this culture relies, which should not be settler-colonialism)After all, if they can bring back Hebrew from the dead, someone can do the former job
Of course, we'll probably encourage other Jewish languages like Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabiyuh, and so forth, since the Eastern, Iberian, and Germanic Jews are different from each other
I don't think there is much to be done about the language in specific. I think after the collapse of israel it will likely revert to being used primarily in religious settings
Eh I second it