Talk:Yiddishist movement

Efforts to make Yiddish an accepted first language/national language?
I can't find anywhere in these articles on Yiddish, an important topic which should be written about prominently - These articles talk mostly about Yiddish literature, but what about the more ground-roots phenomenon of establishing Yiddish as a formal working first language for the masses of Jews? In other words, the Yiddish press, all the scientific/educational books translated into Yiddish (in New York, there was the Frei Arbeter Press, or something like that), Yiddish encyclopedias, etc. The actual impact of Yiddish on Jews was not in all this fiction literature, rather it was the day to day, secular, non-fiction material, which tried to establish Yiddish as a viable, official language, in Poland and many places. From the Nazi, or German perspective, this was a noticeable "threat", also. This entire effort to use Yiddish as an official, modern, day to day first language among millions of European Jews, is not covered at all in these articles. It's important also in relation to the Holocaust articles, as these Yiddish-speaking masses wound up being the main victims of the Holocaust (85% of holocaust victims spoke Yiddish).Jimhoward72 (talk) 21:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * We can't add assertions for which we don't have sources. Are there reliable source where these issues are discussed?   Will Beback    talk    23:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Who is "Yehoshua Mordechai Lifshitz"?
If he is the founder of "Yiddishism" and wrote the important initial essay on it? I have searched everywhere on the internet, in Hebrew/Yiddish and in English, and cannot find any mention of him. Can someone find a reference to him online anywhere?Jimhoward72 (talk) 22:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * (answering my own question). I found him, seems like very obscure person, only mentioned rarely. He also published a Russian-Yiddish, Yiddish-Russian dictionary.Jimhoward72 (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All about Lifshitz - Yiddish, some English

Wiki Education assignment: Zionism and the Roads Not Taken 1880-1948
In the section about the United States, I would suggest adding or direct linking to the International Jewish Labor Bund, as this organization was involved in the spreading of Yiddish language and culture and is therefore related to this topic. Gkat86 (talk) 11:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

— Assignment last updated by Dolly City (talk) 15:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)