Benjamin Harshav's Language in Time of Revolution: Hebrew and Yiddish

Benjamin Harshaf's "Revolutionary Words" tells the reader that social factors, historical factors, will, historical accidents have revived Hebrew and Yiddish and restored them. This is important. Because it builds the foundation of a new, worldly Jewish society and culture and allows them to reproduce with their own language and new social identity. This new social identity means that there is a nationalist movement with a common language, literature, and cultural heritage.

The other side of the resurgence of the Hebrew word not mentioned in this article is the imminent Yiddish and Ladino (Jewish - Spanish), two formerly lively Jewish languages ​​(there are seven species in New York I did). Yiddish newspaper! The move to convert Hebrew from ritual languages ​​to Israeli national languages ​​is as important as Zionist romanticism of the 19th century. Judaism and Radino are considered by the Zionist intellectuals to be Jewish languages, so they are not only worth saving, but also worth forgetting. For example, early Jewish immigration to Palestine and subsequent Israel was encouraged to give up the name of their "slums" and to accept the Hebrew names; except for Hebrew (but especially Yiddish) , Their remarks were received. Is the positive debate the victory of the victory of the death language or is it the Jewish experience that lost a thousand years in Europe?

Since the 1940 's, Yiddish suddenly faced a serious decline, half of the world' s Yiddish speakers were killed, and Hebrew became the only language in the world 's most Jewish state. But today's Yiddish still exists and is widely used among Israeli and American orthodox Jews. In the earlier colonial world, especially in Latin America, there was a strong tradition of language discrimination. But against the general idea, the Catholic church and Spain - almost - are innocent. Indeed, missionaries and monks are spreading several indigenous languages ​​as local languages, and in Paraguay it is still possible to see that 80% of Spanish and Guarani languages ​​are bilingual. The major decline in indigenous languages ​​began mostly after the independence of most Ibero-American countries, primarily due to the policies and economic factors of white and / or mixed lemons.