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The Lemel School- Part 2

In the music lesson, the students learned German songs and not

a single Hebrew song. Consuls and priests entered the school

auditorium and the orchestra began playing the German National

Anthem. The students were silent. None of them sang the anthem

and when all of the guests rose in honor of the anthem none of the

students rose. The principal boiled over in anger and the veteran

teachers became upset. The students ran outside and tore all the

books and notebooks in German.

The rebels made a path out of the torn papers all the way from the

school to the the German Consulate on Neviim Street and all the

way there loudly sang Hebrew songs. This rebellion is known in

the history of education in Jerusalem as the Great Language

Revolt.

Today, in the building of the Lemel School there is a study hall

for the ultra-Orthodox and one can hear childrens' voices studying

and singing in Yiddish, an interesting closing of the circle of a

fiery "war of languages".

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