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An edition of Resurrecting Hebrew (2008)

Resurrecting Hebrew

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This book traces the history of the resurrection of the Hebrew language, from the pioneering work of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, who raised his son as the first native Hebrew-speaker in modern times, to modern Israel, where Hebrew is the spoken tongue of a nation-state.

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Publisher
Nextbook, Schocken
Language
English
Pages
223

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Resurrecting Hebrew
2008, Nextbook, Schocken
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Resurrecting Hebrew
2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Published in

New York

First Sentence

"Some years ago I had the first of two dreams that pushed me to an unexpected search, the way dreams are sometimes able to do."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Jewish encounters

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
492.409
Library of Congress
PJ4551 .S73 2008, PJ4551.S73 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16443997M
Internet Archive
resurrectinghebr00stav
ISBN 13
9780805242317
LCCN
2008002285
OCLC/WorldCat
191090377
Library Thing
5958532
Goodreads
4591796

Work Description

Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans's quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses "language withdrawal," and Stavans sets out in search of his own forgotten Hebrew as well as the man who helped revive the language at the end of the nineteenth century, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.The search for Ben-Yehuda, who raised his eldest son in linguistic isolation--not even allowing him to hear the songs of birds--so that he would be "the first Hebrew-speaking child," becomes a journey full of paradox. It was Orthodox anti-Zionists who had Ben-Yehuda arrested for sedition, and, although Ben-Yehuda was devoted to Jewish life in Palestine, it was in Manhattan that he worked on his great dictionary of the Hebrew language. The resurrection of Hebrew raises urgent questions about the role language plays in Jewish survival, questions that lead Stavans not merely into the roots of modern Hebrew but into the origins of Israel itself. All the tensions between the Diaspora and the idea of a promised land pulse beneath the surface of Stavans's story, which is a fascinating biography as well as a moving personal journey.From the Hardcover edition.

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Some years ago I had the first of two dreams that pushed me to an unexpected search, the way dreams are sometimes able to do.
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