Language in time of revolution

Description:

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. (Source: [University of California Press](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520079588/language-in-time-of-revolution))

subjects: Cultural assimilation,  Hebrew language,  Intellectual life,  Intellectual life.,  Jews,  Revival,  Jews, intellectual life,  Language and languages, origin,  Juifs,  Acculturation,  Vie intellectuelle,  FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY,  Hebrew,  Joden,  Hebreeuws