Language in Time of Revolution

Language in Time of Revolution

by Benjamin Harshav (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08 Sep 1993

ISBN 10: 0520079582
ISBN 13: 9780520079588

Media Reviews
[An] altogether fascinating book. . . . [It is] among the most fascinating studies of the Hebrew revival to have emerged in recent years. -- Modernism
Author Bio
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.