Language in Time of Revolution

"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

Benjamin Harshay is Jacob and Hilda Blanstein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Among his many books is The Meaning of Yiddish (Stanford paperback, 1999).

Preface	p. vii
A Note to the Reader	p. x
The Modern Jewish Revolution: An Essay on the History of Culture and Consciousness
Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic	p. 3
The Internal Response to History	p. 7
A New Period in History	p. 10
The Centrifugal Movement	p. 14
The Force of Negation	p. 17
The New Cultural Trends	p. 24
The Secular Polysystem	p. 33
Assimilation	p. 40
A Jewish Century	p. 42
The Continuous Rainbow	p. 47
The Individual	p. 53
Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Englightenment	p. 57
Politics and Literature	p. 63
Consolidation	p. 68
Two Endings to one Revolution	p. 70
The Age of Modernism	p. 76
The Revival of the Hebrew Language: Anatomy of a Social Revolution
The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew	p. 81
The Social Existence of Language	p. 89
Theory of Twin Systems	p. 93
Language as a Unifying Force	p. 97
The Pitfalls of Scholarship	p. 101
The Beginnings of the Language Revival	p. 104
Three Factors in the Revival of the Language	p. 113
The Life of "Dead" Hebrew	p. 115
The Revival of Written Hebrew	p. 120
New Cells of Society in a Social Desert	p. 133
Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect?	p. 153
Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew	p. 167
Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary	p. 173
Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution	p. 177
Sources on the Hebrew Language Revival: Translated from Hebrew
Rachel Katznelson: Language Insomnia (1918)	p. 183
Yitzhak Tabenkin: the Roots (1937)	p. 195
Berl Katznelson: on the Question of Languages (1919)	p. 205
Yosef Klauzner: Ancient Hebrew and Modern Hebrew (1929)	p. 208
Tsvi Shats: Exile of Our Classical Poetry (1919)	p. 216
References	p. 222
Index	p. 229
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