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Zionism and Yiddish in Mandatory Palestine between 1920-1929: language as the ideological tool of Jewish nationalism
 Kašeová, Karolina ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Glacová, Denisa (referee)
This thesis aims to trace the relationship between Jewish nationalism and language, assessing in particular the manner in which language was used in constructing the modern Jewish nation. I will apply the theories of nationalism to the activities of the Zionism in Mandatory Palestine between the years 1920 and 1929 and I will pay particular attention to the tools Zionists used to achieve their goals in the Mandate. The thesis will focus primarily on Zionist narratives that discredited Yiddish language and culture in particular, and diasporic culture heritage in general. Based on Liora R. Halperin's research I will argue that language reality in Mandatory Palestine was in certain way similar to diaspora language experience. A significant portion of the thesis will address to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and it's multilingual and international nature which can be understood as a betrayal of the original Zionist intention to build a Jewish national university. The thesis then culminates in an analysis of the dispute over establishing a Yiddish department at Hebrew University in 1927. This dispute represented an unprecedented interference in to an academic milieu on the part of the Zionist movement, and it also triggered strongly negative responses in the Mandate and in the diaspora. The debate...
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