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mass murder and no general discussion?

Thanks.

Without being semantic it still outlawed the use of Yiddish, and their were specific politcal and ideological reasons for this.

Finally we're getting somewhere.
Yes, it did "outlaw the use of Yiddish", insofar as Yiddish-language newspapers and journals were proscribed from being produced in the state of Israel (although not, oddly enough, banned from being imported), as was the production of cultural artefacts etc that involved the Yiddish language. Schools were also regulated to teach only in Hebrew.
In other words Yiddish wasn't "made illegal", an attempt was made to legislate it out of existence (two different things. One is violently overt, the other is stealthily overt). The attempt (as has happened every single time a state has attempted to erase a language and culture short of using genocidal means) failed. It failed because it was a meshugeh idea in the first place.
 
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