Shalom to all,
Below please find Link to article, soundbite, illustration and promotion in May issue of New English Review for my new forthcoming book on Hebrew; Ivrit - Israel's Revolutionary Language. I hope it will appear by the end of the year. Best regards Norman Berdichevsky http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/138417/sec_id/138417 Ivrit - Israel's Revolutionary Language; Challenges, Achievements, Dilemmas, Prospects 1 Why This Book? Israel and the Diaspora Draw Further Apart 2 The Magnificent Heritage 3 The Three Thousand Year Old Treasury 4 How Hebrew Became a Modern Language From 7,000 word vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew to 70,000 in today's Modern Hebrew 5 Do the Israelis Speak Hebrew or Israeli? 6 The Great Yiddish-Hebrew Rivalry 7 Negation of the Golah -Cultural Identity of Modern Israel 8 Baltic Rebirth 9 The First Modern Hebrew Language Textbook set in Palestine 10 Soviet Persecution of Hebrew 11 Israeli Arab Use of Hebrew 12 Towards a Hebrew Republic? 13. Amazing Parallels; Hebrew and Esperanto 14 The Bible Code 15 Slang and Profanity 16 The Current Assault on Hebrew at Home 17 Outlook for Hebrew in the U.K. & U.S.A. 18 Hebrew -Mother of All Languages? & Edenics 19 Epilogue -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
