Language in Time of Revolution
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ancient hebrew
ashkenazi
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cultural history
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hebrew language
hebrew revival
hebrew translations
history of israel
history of judaism
israeli lit
jewish
jewish assimilation
jewish culture
jewish family
jewish history
jewish ideology
jewish life
jewish readers
jewish studies
judaism
linguistics books
modern jewish revolution
religion
religion and lingusitics
religious historian
religious literature
religious revolution
religious studies
social revolution
the torah
Product details
- ISBN 9780520079588
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book deals with two remarkable events - the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. It is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers. It tries to rethink a wide field of cultural phenomena and present the main ideas to the intelligent reader, or, better, present a "family picture" of related and contiguous ideas. Many names and details are mentioned, which may not all be familiar to the uninitiated; their function is to provide some concrete texture for this dramatic story, but the focus is on the story itself.
Benjamin Harshav, was a translator, poet, and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Harshav was and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale University, and in 1992, a professor of Slavic languages and literature.
