[Avodah] Changing Havarah

[Arie Folger]

RDC wrote:
> I have one source that mentions in passing that the decision was made
> in the 5690s (1930s CE).  Given that Modern Hebrew had already been
> gaining popularity as an everyday language for a few decades before
> that, does this mean that Modern-Hebrew-speaking Ashkenazim had
> previously been conducting their everyday speech in "havoroh
> Ashkenazis," and then suddenly changed?

Dr. Marc Shapiro quotes a source, in his biography of Rav Jechiel Jacob 
Weinberg, that in his early Berlin years he belonged to a circle where they 
often spoke Hebrew with each other. RJJW was the most fluent Hebrew speaker, 
and ... with Lithunian accent.
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Arie Folger
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