- Title Pages
- Preface
- One Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic
- Two The Internal Response to History
- Three A New Period in History
- Four The Centrifugal Movement
- Five The Force of Negation
- Six The New Cultural Trends
- Seven The Secular Polysystem
- Eight Assimilation
- Nine A Jewish Century
- Ten The Continuous Rainbow
- Eleven The Individual
- Twelve Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment
- Thirteen Politics and Literature
- Fourteen Consolidation
- Fifteen Two Endings to One Revolution
- Sixteen The Age of Modernism
- Seventeen The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew
- Eighteen The Social Existence of Language
- Nineteen Theory of Twin Systems
- Twenty Language as a Unifying Force
- Twenty-one The Pitfalls of Scholarship
- Twenty-two The Beginnings of the Language Revival
- Twenty-three Three Factors in the Revival of the Language
- Twenty-Four The Life of “Dead” Hebrew
- Twenty-Five The Revival of Written Hebrew
- Twenty-Six New Cells of Society in a Social Desert
- Twenty-Seven Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect?
- Twenty-Eight Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew
- Twenty-Nine Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary
- Thirty Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution
- Rachel Katznelson
- Yitzhak Tabenkin
- Berl Katznelson
- Yosef Klauzner
- Tsvi Shats
- References
- Index
The Internal Response to History
The Internal Response to History
- Chapter:
- (p.7) Two The Internal Response to History
- Source:
- Language in Time of Revolution
- Author(s):
Benjamin Harshav
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were waves of pogroms and persecution; world wars and expulsions; the British White Paper of 1939 that barred further Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine; the gates of Western countries closed to refugees from Nazi persecution. There was the total destruction of the nation in Europe, the center of its life for a millennium. However, people often overlook the fact that there were also crucial positive conditions. There were sweeping and comprehensive historical circumstances—some of them intended directly for the Jews, most not related to them at all—that enabled the Jews, in the final analysis, to change the very nature of their hovering existence of transnationalism.
Keywords: pogroms, persecution, wars, Nazi, Europe, Jews, transnationalism
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- One Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic
- Two The Internal Response to History
- Three A New Period in History
- Four The Centrifugal Movement
- Five The Force of Negation
- Six The New Cultural Trends
- Seven The Secular Polysystem
- Eight Assimilation
- Nine A Jewish Century
- Ten The Continuous Rainbow
- Eleven The Individual
- Twelve Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment
- Thirteen Politics and Literature
- Fourteen Consolidation
- Fifteen Two Endings to One Revolution
- Sixteen The Age of Modernism
- Seventeen The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew
- Eighteen The Social Existence of Language
- Nineteen Theory of Twin Systems
- Twenty Language as a Unifying Force
- Twenty-one The Pitfalls of Scholarship
- Twenty-two The Beginnings of the Language Revival
- Twenty-three Three Factors in the Revival of the Language
- Twenty-Four The Life of “Dead” Hebrew
- Twenty-Five The Revival of Written Hebrew
- Twenty-Six New Cells of Society in a Social Desert
- Twenty-Seven Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect?
- Twenty-Eight Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew
- Twenty-Nine Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary
- Thirty Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution
- Rachel Katznelson
- Yitzhak Tabenkin
- Berl Katznelson
- Yosef Klauzner
- Tsvi Shats
- References
- Index
