Vavi Toran

Vavi Toran

Vavi Toran is the Israel education specialist at Jewish LearningWorks and an accomplished artist and public speaker on Israeli arts and culture.
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‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran

I grew up in Israel in a domestic war zone — a “language war” that raged between my parents. The fight was between Hebrew and Yiddish. Ours was not the only household where this war was fought. It was a struggle between the new Israel and the old diaspora, but it was very personal and […]