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• public educational system
• moldova ukraine
• byelorussian ssr
• administrative entities
• jewish populations
• higher educational institutions
• soviet politics
• ethnic minorities
• agricultural districts
• language radio
• jewish population
• official languages
• second world war
• jewish life
• radio program
• language schools
• television program
• language and culture
• university departments

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Yiddish Language, Yiddish Language

It was one of the official languages of the Byelorussian SSR, as well as several agricultural districts of the Galician SSR. A public educational system entirely based on the Yiddish language was established and comprised kindergartens, schools, and higher educational institutions (technical schools, rabfaks and other university departments). At the same time, Hebrew was considered a bourgeois language and its use was generally discouraged. The vast majority of the Yiddish-language cultural institutions were closed in the late 1930s along with cultural institutions of other ethnic minorities lacking administrative entities of their own. After the Second World War, growing anti-Semitic tendencies in Soviet politics drove Yiddish from most spheres. The last Yiddish-language schools, theaters and publications were closed by the end of 1940s. It continued to be spoken widely for decades, nonetheless, in areas with compact Jewish populations (primarily in Moldova, Ukraine, and to a lesser extent Belarus).

The intention was for the Soviet Jewish population to settle there. Jewish cultural life was revived in Birobidzhan much earlier than elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Yiddish theaters began opening in the 1970s. The newspaper ( der birobidzhaner shtern ; lit: "The Birobidzhan Star") includes a Yiddish section. Although the official status of the language was not retained by the Russian Federation, its cultural significance is still recognized and bolstered. The First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture was launched in 2007.

In the capital city of Chiinu, there is a Yiddish language radio program ( yidish lebn ; lit. "Jewish Life"), a television program ( af der yidisher gas ; lit. "On the Jewish Street") and the newspaper ( undzer kol ; lit. "Our Voice").

Source: Wikipedia > Yiddish Language