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Document Details : Title: Language, Literature and Education Subtitle: Yiddish among Britain's Ultra-Orthodox Jews since 1945 - A View from Within Author(s): MITCHELL, B.J. Journal: Studia Rosenthaliana Volume: 36 Date: 2002-2003 Pages: 171-193 DOI: 10.2143/SR.36.0.504921 Abstract : Only the haredim effectively maintained the use of Yiddish in their religious education classes, which eventually led to the development of an ultra-orthodox day school system in the 1940s. Resisting both Hebraisation as Anglicisation, the haredim has maintained the traditional 'Hebrew with Yiddish' methd of tuition throughout the post-war period. Whereas haredi school where children received an exposure to Yiddish were a small minority in the early 1960s, the currently represent a third of all day schools in Great Britain. The use of a pietistic Yiddish literature in wi>haredi schools is limited due to the orality of the tradition and to a lack of suitable reading material, but the latter problem is aparently being remedied in haredi literary production for children. The contemporary developments are certainly encouraging both for a potential Yiddish readership and a pious Yiddish literature in a post-war Britain. |
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