Language in Time of Revolution

This book on culture and consciousness in history concerns the worldwide transformations of Jewish culture and society and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language following the waves of pogroms in Russia in 1881, when large numbers of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe redefined their identity as Jews in a new and baffling world. Reviews With his customary versatility and lucidity Harshav has given us ...a host of new and provocative insights into modern Jewish history...This book is an outstanding attempt to juxtapose the revolution in Jewish life with that of the Hebrew language in such a way that each informs our understanding of the other. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University It is no small component of Harshav s success in this altogether fascinating book to have made clear the family resemblance between what is still regularly called the almost miraculous revival of the Hebrew language and the coterie movements of European high modernism in both politics and the arts. Modernism/Modernity A wise, original, and stimulating book on the shaping of modern Jewish culture...Humane, deeply erudite, and very satisfying. Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University Israeli Hebrew, Angel S enz-Badillos has written, is not the result of natural evolution but of a process without parallel in the development of any other language. The precise nature of the process is studied in illuminating detail in Language in Time of Revolution. London Review of Books The crisscrossing among the discourses of literature, ideology, history, and linguistics makes for a heady intellectual experience...Harshav writes with great authority and verve...His discussions are a model of clarity. Alan Mintz, Brandeis University

ISBN 0804735409   Pages 249 ISBN13 9780804735407 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Stanford University Press   Weight (grammes) 295 Imprint Stanford University Press   Published in Palo Alto Format Paperback   Series title Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences S. Publication date 31 Jan 2000   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress PJ   Width (mm) 153 DEWEY 306.44089924   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		A Note to the Reader
Pt. I		The Modern Jewish Revolution: An Essay on the History of Culture and Consciousness
1		Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic		3
2		The Internal Response to History		7
3		A New Period in History		10
4		The Centrifugal Movement		14
5		The Force of Negation		17
6		The New Cultural Trends		24
7		The Secular Polysystem		33
8		Assimilation		40
9		A Jewish Century		42
10		The Continuous Rainbow		47
11		The Individual		53
12		Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment		57
13		Politics and Literature		63
14		Consolidation		68
15		Two Endings to one Revolution		70
16		The Age of Modernism		76
Pt. II		The Revival of the Hebrew Language: Anatomy of a Social Revolution
17		The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew		81
18		The Social Existence of Language		89
19		Theory of Twin Systems		93
20		Language as a Unifying Force		97
21		The Pitfalls of Scholarship		101
22		The Beginnings of the Language Revival		104
23		Three Factors in the Revival of the Language		113
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'With his customary versatility and lucidity Harshaw has given us...a host of new and provocative insights into modern Jewish history...This book is an outstanding attempt to juxtapose the revolution in Jewish life with that of the Hebrew language in such a way that each informs our understanding of the other.'Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Columbia University

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