The term “language conflict” or “language dispute” refers to a debate in the Jewish community in Palestine in 1913–1914 provoked by the question of the language of instruction to be used in secondary and higher education. The resolution to teach scientific and technical subjects at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa exclusively in German triggered vehement protests in the new Yishuv. Here, the different conceptions of Jewish immigrants in Palestine and the representatives of German-Jewish philanthropy were in conflict with one another. The effort…