Author: Harshav, Benjamin
Title: Language in Time of Revolution
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,234 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Modern Jewish Revolution: An Essay on the History of Culture and Consciousness: Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic; The Internal Response to History; A New Period in History; The Centrifugal Movement; The Force of Negation; The New Cultural Trends; The Secular Polysystem; Assimilation; A Jewish Century; The Continous Rainbow; The Individual; Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment; Politics and Literature; Consolidation; Two Endings to One Revolution; The Age of Modernism; The Revival of the Hebrew Language: Anatomy of a Social Revolution: The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew; The Social Existence of Language; Theory of Twin Systems; Language as a Unifying Force; The Pitfalls of Scholarship; The Beginnings of the Language Revival; Three Factors in the Revival of the Language; The Life of 'Dead' Hebrew; The Revival of Written Hebrew; New Cells of Society in a Social Desert; Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect; Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew; Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary; Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution; Sources on the Hebrew Language Revival: Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav: R. Kartznelson "Language Insomnia"; Y. Tabenkin "On the Question of Languages"; B. Katznelson "On the Question of Languages"; Y: Klauzner "Ancient Hebrew and Modern Hebrew";T. Shats "Exile of Our Classical Poetry".

Keywords: Modern Hebrew Language, Linguistic Revival, Literature Revivals, Cultural History, Semitic Languages, Jewish Minority, Minorities Literary, Intellectual Jewry, Ethnic Linguistics