Excerpt from The Struggle for the Hebrew Language in Palestine The events of the past three months (november, 1913 - Janu ary, 1914) have precipitated the Jewish people into a conflict over the Hebrew language. On the one side in this struggle is Palestine, the new Pales tine, active, energetic, confident of its future. Its live city popu lation is on this side, the whole of its educated class, the laborers and settlers in all the Jewish colonies, the school-teachers, sober minded men of experience who have devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew, and their pupils, young people eager to live a Jewish life in the spirit of their models. It is the Side that is upheld by the Zionist organization, which stands Solid on this issue, ready for any sacrifice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Struggle for the Hebrew Language in Palestine The events of the past three months (November, 1913 - January, 1914) have precipitated the Jewish people into a conflict over the Hebrew language. On the one side in this struggle is Palestine, the new Palestine, active, energetic, confident of its future. Its live city population is on this side, the whole of its educated class, the laborers and settlers in all the Jewish colonies, the school-teachers, sober-minded men of experience who have devoted their lives to the revival of Hebrew, and their pupils, young people eager to live a Jewish life in the spirit of their models. It is the side that is upheld by the Zionist organization, which stands solid on this issue, ready for any sacrifice. On the other side are the leading personages in the Hilfsverein of the German Jews. Dr. Paul Nathan, head of the Hilfsverein, is mainly responsible for the policy of that body. He placed himself in opposition to the clearly expressed will of the people of Palestine, and in a pamphlet of his entitled "Palestine and Palestinian Zionism," he bitterly attacked the Zionist movement and its responsible representatives. To us this great struggle signifies more than a mere polemical controversy with Dr. Nathan. The best way, in our opinion, to defend ourselves is to show objectively what the revival of the Hebrew language in Palestine signifies for the whole of Judaism and Jewry, what role it plays in the development of education in Palestine, and how the conflict over the school system has arisen. The best answer is the truth. The struggle over the Hebrew language has assumed a particularly acute character in Germany. There the opponents of Zionism have united into an anti-Zionist alliance, which finds no methods too base to use in fighting Zionism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine. Viewing twentieth-century history through the lens of language, author Liora Halperin questions the accepted scholarly narrative of a Zionist move away from multilingualism during the years following World War I, 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 language's dominance. The story of language encounters in Jewish Palestine is a fascinating tale of shifting power relationships, both locally and globally. Halperin's 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.

The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and the eruption of World War I in 1914. The inquiry yields a profile of the printers, editors, and journalists, and examines the editors’ working patterns, the gathering of journalistic information, and distribution of the resulting product in the public sphere. Addressing the fact that nearly all of the Hebrew press in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries appealed to an elitist intellectual and affluent readership, the book breaks new ground by showing that from the 1880s onward, a popular press came into being in Palestine for the first time in the history of the Hebrew press. The focus is on three popular newspapers that evolved in Jerusalem along the lines of the Western popular press. While profiling the readership of the popular Hebrew press the book also investigates reading practices. Analyzing the contribution of the press to the modernization of the Hebrew language, this pioneering volume is a key resource for students and scholars of communication, media and Hebrew studies, and media and Jewish history.