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Show Yiddish an Accepted Language. So great has been the recent immigration immi-gration to South Africa that the government gov-ernment of Cape Colony prepared a long string of questions to be put before be-fore each immigrant, who was obliged to answer them in a European language. lan-guage. As Yiddish was the only tongue of thousands it led to the rejection rejec-tion of many who had got as far as London shipping offices. The chief rabbi of the Jewish community in England Eng-land has now received an intimation that the attorney-general at the Cape is willing to accept a declaration in Yiddish from all future immigrants, that tongue being recognized as a European langauge. |