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Contents: Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historic perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebr ew 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-S panish -- Yiddish -- Are "Jewish languages" a unique phenomena? -- Why ar e there no new "Jewish languages? -- Flowering and death -- Catastrophe a nd emotional attachment -- Prestige of languages -- Is Yiddish qualitativ ely different from other diaspora languages? -- Conflict with everyday-la nguage-and-identity groups -- Sociolinguistics in Israel today -- Languag e, identity and nation