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Excerpt from The German Attack on the Hebrew Schools in Palestine
The development of Jewish life in Palestine during the last few decades has been notable, not only for the return of the Jews to the land, but also for their resumption of their ancient language as the medium of daily intercourse. The use of Hebrew as the vernacular of the Jews in Palestine was based not only upon an immemorial historic claim, but also upon purely practical considerations. The Jews who settled in the Holy Land originally spoke the languages of their different native countries, and it was therefore necessary for their mutual understanding and communal harmony that they should all express themselves in the same tongue.
The use of Hebrew for secular purposes had at first to encounter no little opposition among the adherents of extreme Orthodoxy, but this opposition was gradually overcome by the national enthusiasm that inspired the majority of the latter-day Jewish settlers in Palestine.
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