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David M . Bunis [ * 10 ] century, inspired by the flourishing Jewish press of Western Europe, Ottoman Jewish intellectuals began to cultivate a periodical press in their ethnic language, Judezmo ( today often called Ladino or Djudeo - Espanyol ) , in the Hebrew or ‘Jewish’ alphabet . From its earliest days until its demise in the s, the Judezmo press in the Hebrew alphabet afforded a platform for 1940 individual proponents and opponents of Judezmo to share their views on the language with thousands of readers, and suggest proposals for its future . During the same period, the Yiddishists in northeastern Europe—a numerically much larger group, but one also lacking an independent homeland during most of this time 3 —founded scholarly institutions of an international character such as the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research ( fd . Vilnius 1925 ) . YIVO claimed responsibility for the molding of what its directors called “Standard Yiddish” in a manner comparable to that of the royal language...
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