On 10 jul, 01:44, randy.mcdon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 8, 11:56=A0pm, bm2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Under this sort of scenario, what odds that a high percentage of the
> > Yiddish-speaking Jews of eastern Europe still are doing so in 2008?
> > Given nationalist pressures to assimilate, and efforts to make them
> > proper Soviets in the USSR, possibly at gulag-point, one would think
> > there would be a serious drop in the number of Yiddish-speakers: and
> > not only by assimilation, but also by emigration (in a WWII-free
> > world, how long does the US keep its immigration as restricted as it
> > was during the 30's?).
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> I'd separate the Soviet Jews from the non-Soviet central and eastern
> European Jews. Soviet Jews, as has been noted elsewhere in this
> thread, were assimilating strongly to Russian culture even before the
> Revolution.
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I agree with you Randy. I think that Soviet Jews will eventually
speak Russian and not Yiddish or might end up being bilingual. In
other parts of Eastern Europe, Yiddish will be used, especially in the
lands east of Germany, Hungary, Czechslovakia, and Austria. The Jews
of Poland and Romania will probably continue to speak Yiddish,
especially if they remain relatively unassimilated or at least
socially segregated. Ladino might also be a thriving language in this
TL because the Ladino speaking communities of Yugoslavia, Greece, and
Turkey will be intact.
Aaron, I think that the Jewish population in this TL will
probably be closer to 24 or 25 million.
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