Language in Time of Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2023
248 pages
978-0-520-91296-0 (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.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
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
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
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
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Benjamin Harshav
Language in Time of Revolution
Book
08/1993
1st Edition
University of California Press
€60.66
Shipment within 10-20 days
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
