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The Language Question in Palestine: We Speak Yiddish Agudists Declare: Will Describe Themselves As Y

October 17, 1931
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We speak Yiddish, “Kol Yisrael”, the organ of the Palestine Separatist Orthodox Community of the Agudath Israel, headed by Rabbi Sonnenfeld, writes to-day of the forthcoming Palestine census, declaring that “we shall not be false to ourselves as we were at the census held ten years ago, when we added ourselves to the number of Hebrew-speaking Jews, not knowing to what destruction the Hebrew language cult and nationalism would bring us”.

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