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JERUSALEM — Oy Gevalt! Yiddish has been uttered in the Israeli parliament! Long disparaged in Hebrew- speaking Israel as the native tongue of Diaspora Jews, the centuries-old lingo made a comeback Tuesday with the first ever Yiddish Culture Day.
Marking 150 years since the birth of Sholem Aleichem, the popular Russian-Jewish author of Yiddish literature, and 20 years since the establishment of the Yiddish theater in Tel Aviv, lawmakers gathered to discuss ways to preserve and promote the German- based language written with the Hebrew alphabet.
