AY, these issues have not exclusive to. Yiddish vs. Hebrew was also a big issue among the secularists with the Bund favoring Yiddish as the “language of the Jewish proletariat” (Lenin and, at first Stalin ym”s, even established Yiddish schools while suppressing Hebrew schools and a “Jewish autonomous region” in Birobidzan with Yiddish as the official language. For that matter, various German Protestant groups tried (and some, like the Amish, still try) to preserve German as the group’s language. In fact, a legal battle was fought over the right to teach in German when some states tried to ban instruction in languages other than English. SCOTUS overturned it in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923) – which was fought over a $25 fine! I suppose that the same battles were fought when the Jews in Bavel switched from Aramaic to a Arabic.
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