Re: [ha-Safran] [EXT] - I need the story about an Israeli soldier whose life was saved thanks to a Bible that he placed in his uniform breast pocket

Though I'm sure all of these events happened as described, they are also something of a trope. I'm fond of the version as written in Bruce Courtnay's novel about growing up in South Africa in the 30s and 40s, The Power of One. The speaker is the protagonists grandfather: "All i know about the

Re: [ha-Safran] [EXTERNAL] book on the "Yiddish/Hebrew debate"

Not sure this is exactly the book they are thinking of but Liora Halperin's Babel in Zion is about how Zionists pushed for Hebrew and against a multi-lingualism that included Yiddish alongside other languages in mandatory Palestine. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300