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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) (Paperback)
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) (Paperback)
Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
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Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary
Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and
What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators
tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing
status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that
status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting
attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive
the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses? How
can the vibrancy of Hebrew literature be conveyed to a larger
audience? The volume features a diverse group of distinguished
contributors, including Sarah Bunin Benor, Dara Horn, Adriana
Jacobs, Alan Mintz, Hannah Pressman, Adam Rovner, Ilan Stavans,
Michael Weingrad, Robert Whitehill-Bashan, and Wendy Zierler. With
lively personal insights, their essays give fellow Americans a
glimpse into the richness of an exceptional language. Celebrating
the vitality of modern Hebrew, this book addresses the challenges
and joys of being a Hebraist in America in the twenty-first
century. Together these essays explore ways to rekindle an interest
in Hebrew studies, focusing not just on what Hebrew means-as a
global phenomenon and long-lived tradition-but on what it can mean
to Americans.
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