TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myhill,John
TI  - Language in Jewish society:  : towards a new understanding
SN  - 1853597600
AV  - PJ5067 
U1  - PJ 5067.M94 2004 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Clevedon
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Jews
KW  - Languages
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Identity
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
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