Forward, August 26th, 1994
Philologos Forward 08-26-1994 ON LANGUAGE: Israeli Dogs Say 'Woof, Woof'.
BY PHILOLOGOS
The Hebrew language in modern Palestine/Israel had to fight many battles with other languages before -- seemingly against all linguistic odds -- it was revived as the daily speech of a people. In the first agricultural colonies managed by the Baron de Rothschild, the baron's officials insisted on French schools and only slowly agreed under public pressure to switch to Hebrew. Early in the century, when the German-Jewish Hilfsverein established the first technical high school in Palestine, later to grow ...
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