As most of the recent pontificators have shown up in the past couple of days ,here is a re-post:
Rav Reuven Grozovsky
Famous Washington Irving HS of 1948 is brought in his “Bayos HaZeman”.
Rav Reuven in his epochal 1948 speech castigated all in isms of the era including
Zionism ,hebrewism and including yiddishists and yiddishism
He declared that the yiddisher heart and holiness were seeped into the language
and Yiddish was thoroughly embodied and redolent of them.
However for many it would be turned into a religion and a foreign Ends in of itself
[ a translated understatemet]