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.
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Language in Time of Revolution
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I • The Modern Jewish Revolution
- 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
- 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
- Rachel Katznelson: Language Insomnia (1918)
- Yitzhak Tabenkin: The Roots (1937)
- Berl Katznelson: On the Question of Languages (1919)
- Yosef Klauzner: Ancient Hebrew and Modern Hebrew (1929)
- Tsvi Shats: Exile of Our Classical Poetry (1919)
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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