A Yiddish newspaper at war with Yiddish

Ėstraĭkh, G. (Gennadiĭ)
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Title A Yiddish newspaper at war with Yiddish : Abraham Cahan and the 1931 language debate in the New York "Forverts".
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a Journal of Yiddish Studies (ULS)001229712 (2020)
Description The arti­cle focus­es on the para­dox of the neg­a­tive atti­tude artic­u­lat­ed by a Yid­dish news­pa­per toward using Yid­dish as the edu­ca­tion­al medi­um of instruc­tion in Amer­i­can Jew­ish schools. Abra­ham Cahan, the edi­tor-in-chief, and many, if not the major­i­ty, of the staff writ­ers (all of them social­ists of var­i­ous shad­ings) con­tend­ed that Yid­dish was detri­men­tal to Amer­i­can children’s edu­ca­tion­al achieve­ments. Such atti­tude stemmed from their oppo­si­tion to Yid­dishism, which they con­sid­ered as a form of nation­al­ism and a hin­drance to Amer­i­can­iza­tion. In addi­tion, they dis­ap­proved of what they saw as an unjus­ti­fi­ably reformed lan­guage, used by ​“Yid­dishist” teach­ers. Fol­low­ing vocif­er­ous protests among its read­ers, includ­ing func­tionar­ies and activists of Jew­ish orga­ni­za­tions, the Forverts was forced to revamp its stand on Yid­dish education.
Language English
National Library system number 997012314970705171
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