Language in Time of Revolution

Benjamin Harshav

ISBN 10: 0520079582 / ISBN 13: 9780520079588

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993

About this Item

1st printing (1993). 234pp. VG+/VG+ copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language in Time of Revolution
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520079582
• ISBN 13: 9780520079588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.