Sublime

From the Mikveh Yisrael school they travel to the colony of Rishon LeZion. Baron Edmond de Rothschild is the colony’s sponsor and benefactor.

As a result of these interactions, Yiddish—and specifically the writers and work associated with Yung Yisroel—affected and was at the root of some highly significant changes in Israeli literature from the 1950s onward. But since Yiddish was deemed as, to use Yael Chaver’s expression, “the language that must be forgotten,” this influence remains hid

Yavetz was but one of a number of writers shaping the Yishuv. Another, who became a leading writer not only of the Yishuv but of the Western world, was Shmuel Yosef (Shai) Czaczkes,