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Language in Jewish society [electronic resource] : towards a new understanding / John Myhill.

By: Myhill, John, 1956-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Clevedon, [England] ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: ix, 239 p. ; 21 cm.Subject(s): Jews -- Languages | Sociolinguistics | Jews -- Identity | Hebrew language -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.44/089/924 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historical perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebrew as a spoken language -- Hebrew as a sacred language -- Diaspora Hebrew and the modern European ideology of language and identity -- The revival of Hebrew -- Diaspora Hebrew today -- Aramaic -- Judeo-Arabic -- Judeo-Spanish -- Yiddish -- Are 'Jewish languages' a unique phenomenon? -- Why are there no new 'Jewish languages'? -- Flowering and death -- Catastrophe and emotional attachment -- Prestige of languages -- Is Yiddish qualitatively different from other diaspora languages? -- Conflicts with everyday-language-and-identity groups -- Sociolinguistics in Israel today.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.

Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historical perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebrew as a spoken language -- Hebrew as a sacred language -- Diaspora Hebrew and the modern European ideology of language and identity -- The revival of Hebrew -- Diaspora Hebrew today -- Aramaic -- Judeo-Arabic -- Judeo-Spanish -- Yiddish -- Are 'Jewish languages' a unique phenomenon? -- Why are there no new 'Jewish languages'? -- Flowering and death -- Catastrophe and emotional attachment -- Prestige of languages -- Is Yiddish qualitatively different from other diaspora languages? -- Conflicts with everyday-language-and-identity groups -- Sociolinguistics in Israel today.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.