Pratiques des langues vivantes
Sprechen Sie power? Once the language of Schiller and Goethe, then of Hitler, German is hip again (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21663257-once-language-schiller-and-goethe-then-hitler-german-hip-again-sprechen-sie-power SUCH was the status of German in the 19th century—for Europeans generally and for Jews in particular—that Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, once proposed making it the official language of a future state of Israel. In the event, devotees of Hebrew won...
