Language in time of revolution

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Language in time of revolution

Benjamin Harshav

University of California Press, 1993

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"Sources on the Hebrew language revival / translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav": p. [181]-221

Bibliography: p. 222-228

Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

PREFACE PART I * THE MODERN JEWISH REVOLUTION An Essay on the History of Culture and Consciousness 1. Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic 2. The Internal Response to History 3. A New Period in History 4. The Centrifugal Movement 5. The Force of Negation 6. The New Cultural Trends 7. The Secular Polysystem 8. Assimilation 9. A Jewish Century 10. The Continuous Rainbow 11. The Individual 12. Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment 13. Politics and Literature 14. Consolidation 15. Two Endings to One Revolution 16. The Age of Modernism PART II * THE REVIVAL OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE Anatomy of a Social Revolution 17. The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew 18. The Social Existence of Language 19. Theory of Twin Systems 20. Language as a Unifying Force 21. The Pitfalls of Scholarship 22. The Beginnings of the Language Revival 23. Three Factors in the Revival of the Language 24. The Life of "Dead" Hebrew 25. The Revival of Written Hebrew 26. New Cells of Society in a Social Desert 27. Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect? 28. Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew 29. Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary 30. Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution PART III * SOURCES ON THE HEBREW LANGUAGE REVIVAL Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav Rachel Katznelson: Language Insomnia (1918) Yitzhak Tabenkin: The Roots (1937) Berl Katznelson: On the Question of Languages (1919) Yosef Klauzner: Ancient Hebrew and Modem Hebrew (1929) Tsvi Shats: Exile of Our Classical Poetry (1919) REFERENCES INDEX

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