Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub

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The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine

The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine

My 2016 Master's Thesis: "Jewish Identity and Language Politics: Hebrew, Yiddish and the contemporary debates on Zionism" in Full

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Wounded Yiddishists after an attack by Hebrew language fanatics, Tel Aviv, 1928. Credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Included in Judy Maltz's article for Haaretz: “When Speaking Yiddish Could Get You Beaten Up by Jews in Tel Aviv”

The following is my 2016 MA thesis which I received with distinction from SOAS University of London.1

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