Language in Time of Revolution

Harshav, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0520079582 / ISBN 13: 9780520079588

Verlag: University of California Press, 1993

Beschreibung

As new book and jacket.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 105178

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Language in Time of Revolution
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520079582
• ISBN-13: 9780520079588
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Non-Fiction

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.