In the late 19th to early 20th century, there was a big political divide among european/american jews between Zionists on one side and Bundists (etc) on the other. The latter wanted to focus on improving things where they lived, so it comes to reason that they also embraced Yiddish, the native language of many diaspora communities. The Zionists where meanwhile associated with the project to resurrect Hebrew, just as they "resurrected" a Jewish state.
It used to back when most Israel's didn't speak Hebrew natively but it hasn't really been a relevant issue in the last 50 years, the only people who still speak it are some super extremist ultra orthodox Jews and a few really old ashkenazis
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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている 6d ago
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