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Author:   Dr Maria Anna Corvaglia (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.577kg
ISBN:  

9781782259039

ISBN 10:   1782259031
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Language and Jewish Identity; Jewish Language and Identity in Comparative and Historic Perspective; Language and Jewish Identity in Modern Times; Conclusion 2. Hebrew 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; Conclusion 3. Other Jewish languages Aramaic; Judeo-Arabic; Judeo-Spanish; Yiddish; Are Jewish languages a Unique Phenomena?; 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?; Conclusion 4. Themes in Jewish sociolinguistics Conflict with everyday-language-and-identity Groups; Sociolinguistics in Israel Today Language, Identity and Nation References

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Dr Maria Anna Corvaglia is Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Leeds School of Law.

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