Resurrecting Hebrew
By: Ilan Stavans.
Series: Jewish encounters
Publisher: Nextbook; Schocken
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780805242317
Subjects: Stavans, Ilan -- Travel -- Israel; Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, -- 1858-1922; Hebrew language -- Revival; Israel -- Description and travel
First sentence: Some years ago I had the first of two dreams that pushed me to an unexpected search, the way dreams are sometimes able to do.
Description: This book traces the history of the resurrection of the Hebrew language, from the pioneering work of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, who raised his son as the first native Hebrew-speaker in modern times, to modern Israel, where Hebrew is the spoken tongue of a nation-state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Resurrecting Hebrew
pagenum: 1; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 205; title: Chronology
pagenum: 209