The Jews who have returned to the Holy Land shared a common history and religion. but they brought with them enough different native languages to threaten all hope of a cohesive nation. While Yiddish. the GermanJewish dialect spoken by East European Jews. at least overcame that groups experience with Russian. Polish. or Hungarian. Yiddish was as alien to the Arabic and Frenchspeaking Jews of the Middle East as was Spanish. And Spanish was just one of the many other languages brought to Israel by immigrants from Spain and Latin America. Israel has shown the world that the key to uniting a polyglot people Is to establish a language of mutual understanding. Unlike America. where our British colonizers left us with an English language that Is preponderant throughout the world.
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