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Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
Liora R. Halperin
Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
Liora R. Halperin
Questions the accepted scholarly narrative of a Zionist move away from multilingualism, demonstrating how Jews in Palestine remained connected linguistically by both preference and necessity to a world outside the boundaries of the pro-Hebrew community even as it promoted Hebrew and achieved that language's dominance.
328 pages, 7 b/w illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 22, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780300197488 |
Publishers | Yale University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Dimensions | 160 × 243 × 28 mm · 630 g |
Language | English |
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