@serge Didn't Israel used to heavily tax non-Hebrew performing arts in an attempt to promote Hebrew and eliminate "diasporic jargons"? If so, we might as well say so.

I also don't see anything wrong with acknowledging that for most of the last thousand years, #Yiddish was a primary language for the vast majority of the world's Jews, at a time when hardly anyone used Hebrew conversationally.

I understand concerns about always equating Jewish with #Ashkenazic -- my own cultural points of reference are largely Turkish and Greek Sephardic -- but Ashkenazim were something like 80% of the world's Jews for centuries. To minimize that is to paint a false picture.