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//With the creation and proliferation of Modern Hebrew, there was a cost, though

I grew up hearing my grandmother speaking Yiddish sometimes, my wife's dad is fluent and I love hearing Chabad rabbis break into it.

But.

The Yiddish and the other languages you listed are languages of the diaspora. They came to be because our people did not have a home and ended up speaking the dialects of their neighbors. It's incredibly empowering that there's now a country where our "real" (non-diaspor) language thrives.

Of course, there's a tremendous body of work written in those languages that is valuable and must be preserved but the fact that Hebrew is people's native language nowadays should only be celebrated.