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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 Language0and-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
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Jews Languages, Sociolinguistics, Jews Identity, Hebrew language History