Soviet orders awarded to israelis?

[Lapa]

How about the Belarussian Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Marc

[Simon]

Well it is in Hebrew (Ivrit) but i cannot make out what it says. Yiddish also has a Hebrew alphabet.

I have a hard time following your thought flow.
1. Yiddish has a Hebrew alphabet.
2. The inscription in Hebrew alphabet is indecipherable in Hebrew.
From 1 and 2 you conclude it must be Hebrew.

When is it from? I've never seen anything like it , yes like you said it must be 1920's to 30's

Please, read my previous post more attentively.

hell i live in Israel and Yiddish isnt even a encouraged language to learn.

truly a teeth-shattering argument in support of the thesis "Yiddish was discouraged in the Soviet Union 80 years ago"

[medals73]

Yiddish (scarcely Hebrew) was used in the USSR in the early years, and is frequenetly found on orders and badges, especially from Belarus.

What Israeli policy is or was is of course totally irrelevant. And we need to be careful not to fall into the error in thinking that all Jews were/are Israelis even long before the Zionist state was created.

Some people, I fear, so badly WANT things to be a certain way that facts and history can'rt sway them. I think I'll bow out of this discussion now.

[Tal Inbar]

Well it is in Hebrew (Ivrit) but i cannot make out what it says.

It is Yiddish, not Hebrew.

[Pobeda45]

Marc, I love that Belarus Order of Red Banner of Labor! :thumbsup

Regarding Yiddish, not sure what we are arguing about since it IS primarily a German language, just written in Hebrew letters. It ranged from common to prevalent for Jews in Central Europe and in the Pale of Settlement.. So it was common for Jews in Belarus, for example.
Hebrew as a spoken language really only began to be revived with Ben Yehudah and the activists of the 19th century.

Regarding the USSR and the Jewish "question," we know what started happening in 1948-1953..

George