Language in Time of Revolution (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differen)
by Benjamin Harshav
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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.
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Language in Time of Revolution (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differen)
November 1, 1999, Stanford University Press
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
0804735409 9780804735407
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Hebräisch: Sprache in Zeiten der Revolution
1995, Jüdischer Verlag
Hardcover
in German
- 1. Auflage
3633541039 9783633541034
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Language in time of revolution
1993, University of California Press
in English
0520079582 9780520079588
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"As we look around us in contemporary America, we see large numbers of "Jews" or persons of Jewish origin (many of whom shed their recognizably Jewish names) in such areas as law, medicine, psychoanalysis, mathematics, theoretical physics, economics, linguistics, the academy in general, as well as in the communications and entertainment industries, in trade and political thought, and very few among farmers, industrial workers, or soldiers."
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