Reviews

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Yiddish Revival, Hebrew Revival: A Review

Think­ing beyond notions of ori­gin, nativ­i­ty, and pos­ses­sion in lan­guage, Henig offers a reflec­tion on the para­dox­es of eth­no­lin­guis­tic nation­al­ism and what it might mean, instead, to linger on the stut­ter­ing, nomadic, and ghost­ly modes of an undead language.

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The Place of German in the History of Jewish Nationalism: Review of German as a Jewish Problem by Marc Volovici

Ger­man as a Jew­ish Lan­guage chal­lenges the dis­tinc­tions made between Jew­ish” and non-Jew­ish” lan­guages and con­cur­rent­ly empha­sizes the per­me­abil­i­ty between dis­ci­pli­nary boundaries.

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