War of the Languages

Short description: Debate in the land of Israel over Jewish language instruction

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"The Storm of Posters: The Battle for the Hebrew Language"

The war of the languages (Hebrew: מלחמת השפות; Milhemet HaSafot), also known as the Language War[1], was a heated debate in the land of Israel over the language of instruction in the region's new Jewish schools. This "language war" was a cornerstone event in the history of the revival of the Hebrew language and its consolidation as Israel's official language.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Background
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Background

Hebrew was the language of instruction in 1904 in 6 of the 29 organized schools in the land of Israel.[citation needed] It was decided in 1908[who?] to establish the first professional post-secondary institution in Israel,[clarification needed] which eventually became the Technion in Haifa. The name chosen for the new institution was Technikum (Hebrew: טכניקום), which was meant to educate and train skilled workers (managers, technicians, engineers). In addition, a school with two majors, a technical major and a practical major, was to be established alongside it.[citation needed]

## History

The German Jewish aid agency Ezra (German-Jewish aid) (he), which had maintained schools for Jewish immigrants in the land of Israel since 1905, sought to establish German as the language of instruction at the Technikum in 1913, which it was sponsoring.[3][4] This sparked a public controversy between those who supported the use of German, and those who believed that Hebrew should be the language used by the Jewish people in their homeland. The issue was not just ideological, because until then, Hebrew was primarily a liturgical language, and lacked modern technical terms.[5]

The Haifa City Museum produced an exhibit on the "War of the Languages" in 2011, curated by Svetlana Reingold.[6]

## See also

* Anti-Yiddish sentiment
* Battalion of the Defenders of the Language
* Culture of Israel
* Education in Israel
* Jewish languages
* Languages of Israel

## References

1. ↑ Shapira, Anita (2012). Israel: A History. Brandeis University Press. ISBN 9781611683523.
2. ↑ Jewish History . Jewish History. Retrieved on 5 October 2013.
3. ↑ Spolsky, Bernard, and Elana Shohamy (2001). "The Penetration of English as Language of Science and Technology into the Israeli Linguistic Repertoire: A Preliminary Inquiry", in: Ulrich Ammon (Ed.), The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 311016647X. p. 167-176; here: p. 169.
4. ↑ Kremer, Arndt (January 30, 2015). "Brisante Sprache? Deutsch in Palästina und Israel" Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.. Section "Frühe Siedlungen, erste Kontroversen". Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. www.bpb.de. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
5. ↑ How German built the Hebrew language
6. ↑ Parasczczuk, Joanna (25 March 2011). "With words, not weapons". The Jerusalem Post. ProQuest 860862075.

## External links

* War of the Languages

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Hebrew language

Overviews|

* Language
* Alphabet
* History
* Transliteration to English / from English
* Gematria

Eras|

* Biblical (northern dialect)
* Mishnaic
* Medieval
* Modern

Reading traditions|

* Ashkenazi
* Sephardi
* Italian
* Mizrahi (Syrian)
* Yemenite
* Samaritan
* Tiberian (extinct)
* Palestinian (extinct)
* Babylonian (extinct)

Orthography|

| Eras|

* Biblical

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Scripts|

* Rashi
* Braille
* Ashuri
* Cursive
* Crowning
* Paleo-Hebrew

Alphabet|

* Alef
* Bet
* Gimel
* Dalet
* Hei
* Vav
* Zayin
* Het
* Tet
* Yud
* Kaf
* Lamed
* Mem
* Nun
* Samech
* Ayin
* Pei
* Tsadi
* Kuf
* Reish
* Shin
* Taw

Niqqud|

* Tiberian
* Babylonian
* Palestinian
* Samaritan

* Shva
* Hiriq
* Tzere
* Segol
* Patach
* Kamatz
* Holam
* Kubutz and Shuruk
* Dagesh
* Mappiq
* Maqaf
* Rafe
* Sin/Shin Dot

Spelling|

* with Niqqud / missing / full
* Mater lectionis
* Abbreviations
* Plene scriptum

Punctuation|

* Diacritics
* Meteg
* Cantillation
* Geresh
* Gershayim
* Inverted nun
* Shekel sign
* Numerals

Phonology|

* Biblical Hebrew
* Modern Hebrew
* Philippi's law
*   * Law of attenuation

Grammar|

* Biblical
* Modern

* Verbal morphology
* Semitic roots
* Prefixes
* Suffixes
* Segolate
* Waw-consecutive

Academic|

* Revival
* Academy
* Study
* Ulpan
* Keyboard
* Hebrew / ancient / modern Israeli literature
* Names
* Surnames
* Unicode and HTML

Reference works|

* Brown–Driver–Briggs
* Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

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