Author: Liora R. Halperin File Type: pdf The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the lens of language, author Liora Halperin questions the accepted scholarly narrative of a Zionist move away from multilingualism, demonstrating how Jews in Palestine remained connected linguistically by both preference and necessity to a world outside the boundaries of the pro-Hebrew community even as it promoted Hebrew and achieved that languages dominance. The story of language encounters in Jewish Palestine is a fascinating tale of shifting power relationships, both locally and globally. Halperins absorbing study explores how a young national community was compelled to modify the dictates of Hebrew exclusivity as it negotiated its relationships with its Jewish population, Palestinian Arabs, the British, and others outside the margins of the national project and ultimately came to terms with the limitations of its hegemony in an interconnected world. **Review This intellectual tour de force is one of the most important books on Zionist history to appear in the past decade. It will revolutionize the field in both its subject and methodology.Derek Penslar, University of Oxford (Derek Penslar) Cutting through Zionist and anti-Zionist myths alike, Liora Halperin reveals a Zionism painfully aware of its own limited power, divided in its attitude to Arab neighbors and British rulers, and surprisingly realistic about the limits of nationalist cultural revolution.Kenneth B. Moss, The Johns Hopkins University (Kenneth B. Moss) Liora Halperins Babel in Zionrevisits our conventional image of a purer time in the past when the Zionist collective in Palestine was united in its commitment to Hebrew and its rejection of other tongues. An illuminating book that transforms our understanding of the history of the Zionist cultural project.Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel Bartal) Babel in Zion offers us an empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated and highly original perspective on Zionist efforts to make Hebrew the exclusive language of Jews in mandate Palestine, imaginatively exploring the gap between official rhetoric and lived reality as well as the persistence of linguistic diversity down to 1948 and beyond.Zachary Lockman, New York University (Zachary Lockman) Babel in Zionoffers a sophisticated cultural history of the struggle for hegemony of the Hebrew language in the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and binational reality of the pre-State Yishuv in PalestineEretz-Israel. It is groundbreaking in its rereading of the national revival thesis as heterogeneous and self-contradictory, and in foregrounding how the diasporictongues undermine this hegemony.Hannan Hever, Yale University (Hannan Hever) Winner of the 2015 Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies published in 2014. This award is sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies. (Shapiro Prize Association for Israel Studies 2015-05-01) Babel in Zion is an exemplary, smoothly written cultural history that situates the resurgence of Hebrew as a national vernacular within the complex and multilingual setting of interwar Palestine.Barbara Mann, International Journal of Middle East Studies (Barbara Mann International Journal of Middle East Studies 2016-02-01) About the Author Liora R. Halperin is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She lives in Boulder, CO.

Author: Peter John Rhodes File Type: pdf Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the classical period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.ullTwo important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek worldllFeatures new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the AegeanllEnlarged and additional maps and illustrative materialllCovers the history of an important period, including the flourishing of democracy in Athens the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the GreatllFocuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpretedlulReviewIt is superbly fitted for the purpose [of an undergraduate textbook] extremely full, clear and detailed... A model of how this sort of history should be written. (BBC History Magazine)A thoughtful and measured treatment, especially valuable for undergraduates. Beats its rivals for sheer thoroughness and sagacity. --David Whitehead, Queens University BelfastA reliable history, with an up-to-date bibliography concluding each chapter... well-fitted for an undergraduate survey course in the classical world. (Choice)Peter Rhodes is one of the most formidable living scholars of Classical (5th and 4th centuries BC) Greece and especially of the political institutions of the Athenian democracy Rhodess typically clear, sober and detailed accounts of the 5th-century Athenian empire, the Atheno-Peloponnesian War and the 4th-century Second Athenian League may well become the first port of call for undergraduate essay writers and more enduring resources for their mentors. (Times Higher Education Supplement)This volume is therefore a valuable resource for any teacher of this period of Greek History, so one for the departmental library would be helpful, and at university level any undergraduate would find that it provides an excellent overview. (Journal of Classics Teaching)Rhodes has written a very accessible work on the classical Greek world ... highly recommendable and very suitable for undergraduates, not only as an introduction to the Greek classical world but also as a textbook for the proper methodological approach. (Scholia)This book demonstrates a breadth of scholarship but remains easy to read and understand. (Ancient West & East)Readers of every variety, but especially those who take their ancient history seriously, owe a great debt to Peter Rhodes for a book which is a joy to read and which, because of its meticulous scholarship, deserves to become the first book a historian of Classical Greece turns to when seeking information that is thoroughly grounded and clearly explained.(Blaise Nagy, New England Classical Journal)ReviewA leading authority on Athens, Rhodes has written a superb narrative of Classical Greece for upper-level undergraduates lucid, concise, and balanced. Welcome additions to the second edition are chapters on life and culture, and brief selections from contemporary sources.Kenneth G. Holum, University of MarylandRhodes provides an excellent introduction to the history of the Greek world in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Of particular importance is the clarity of the narrative and the consistent citation of the primary source material.Hugh Elton, Trent UniversityP.J. Rhodes second edition of A History of the Classical World 478-323 BC is superior to its nearest competitors for the university and non-specialist audience, and noticeably improved from the first edition, e.g., smoother transitions into new topics the addition of two new chapters on culture and society the reader-friendly use of shaded boxed inserts of primary sources more illustrations, maps, figures, and a new glossary. This book will set the standard for introductions to the history of Classical Greece.Glenn R. Bugh, Virginia Tech