Language in Time of Revolution

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-520-07958-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harshav, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.