Language in Time Of Revolution

The book of the known American linguist and culturologist Benjamin Harshava touches two significant events: radical changes in a social cultural life of Jews during the newest time and revival of hebrew language. The author treats the nature of the phenomenon named by him " the Jewish revolution of new time ", and in detail investigates one of aspects of this revolution: revival of a Hebrew and its distribution as the basic new language, a Hebrew of a society. The theory developed by the author many languages Is offered. In the book also are included a number of articles} about revival of the Hebrew, belonging outstanding Jewish public figures of the last century

table of contents

foreword

Part I
  JEWISH REVOLUTION IN MODERN TIMES
Part II
  Revival of the Hebrew Language
part III
  Hebrew-speaking authors about the revival of Hebrew
part IV
  Multilingualism
 
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