Language in Time of Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 1993
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-520-07958-8 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07958-8 (9780520079588)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Benjamin Harshav
Language in Time of Revolution
E-Book
04/2023
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€56.99
Available for download
Person
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.
Content
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
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