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ONLINE

1st ed.

Clevedon, [England] ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2004

1 online resource (ix, 239 p.)

ISBN 1853597627 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 1853597600 (pbk : alk. paper)

ISBN 1853597619 (hbk : alk. paper)

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)567989221