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@fdaja
My Holocaust-surviving grandparents didn't speak Yiddish (their Jewish communities spoke Hungarian and Czech/German). They wouldn't have been able to communicate with people in Israel without Hebrew. People really overestimate the universality of Yiddish, even just in Europe.
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@dgutid
Yiddish was not universally spoken among European Jews.
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