Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism
With the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the early 20th century, and a Hebrew culture with it, furious debates arose among Jewish writers about the future of Jewish literary multilingualism. Until this period, the idea that Jewish monolingualism was a preferred mode of cultural...
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2019-12-01
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| description | With the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the early 20th century, and a Hebrew culture with it, furious debates arose among Jewish writers about the future of Jewish literary multilingualism. Until this period, the idea that Jewish monolingualism was a preferred mode of cultural existence or that a writer would have to choose between the two primary languages of European Jewish cultural production was a relatively new one. Polylingualism had been characteristic of Jewish culture and literary production for millennia. But in modernity, Jewish nationalist movements, particularly Zionism, demanded a monolingual Jewish culture united around one language. Nonetheless, polylingual Jewish culture has persisted, and despite the state of Israel’s insistence on Hebrew as the national language, Israeli multilingualism has surged in recent years. This article surveys a number of recent developments in translingual, transcultural, and transnational Israeli literary and cultural forms |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4193ffb982a444bd82b019a06a347e1e2022-12-21T18:02:01ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices2618-897X2618-89882019-12-0116462263610.22363/2618-897X-2019-16-4-622-63618309Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli MultilingualismMelissa Weininger0Rice University in HoustonWith the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Palestine in the early 20th century, and a Hebrew culture with it, furious debates arose among Jewish writers about the future of Jewish literary multilingualism. Until this period, the idea that Jewish monolingualism was a preferred mode of cultural existence or that a writer would have to choose between the two primary languages of European Jewish cultural production was a relatively new one. Polylingualism had been characteristic of Jewish culture and literary production for millennia. But in modernity, Jewish nationalist movements, particularly Zionism, demanded a monolingual Jewish culture united around one language. Nonetheless, polylingual Jewish culture has persisted, and despite the state of Israel’s insistence on Hebrew as the national language, Israeli multilingualism has surged in recent years. This article surveys a number of recent developments in translingual, transcultural, and transnational Israeli literary and cultural formshttp://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/22561/17637translingualismnationalismmultilingualismjewish culture |
| spellingShingle | Melissa Weininger Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices translingualism nationalism multilingualism jewish culture |
| title | Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism |
| title_full | Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism |
| title_fullStr | Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism |
| title_short | Nationalism and Monolingualism: the “Language Wars” and the Resurgence of Israeli Multilingualism |
| title_sort | nationalism and monolingualism the language wars and the resurgence of israeli multilingualism |
| topic | translingualism nationalism multilingualism jewish culture |
| url | http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/22561/17637 |
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