"Even the Dogs in the Street Bark in Hebrew": National Ideology and Everyday Culture in Tel-Aviv
Reviving Hebrew in the Land of Israel was a major Zionist goal. Tel-Aviv's municipal government tried to enforce the use of Hebrew as the single public language of the city, as did "The Battalion of the Defenders of the Hebrew Language," a voluntary youth organization. Hebrew became T...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2002
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2002, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 359-382 |
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| Summary: | Reviving Hebrew in the Land of Israel was a major Zionist goal. Tel-Aviv's municipal government tried to enforce the use of Hebrew as the single public language of the city, as did "The Battalion of the Defenders of the Hebrew Language," a voluntary youth organization. Hebrew became Tel-Aviv's formal and main language, but the use of other languages was not eradicated, revealing a gap between the ideological consensus and everyday reality in an immigrant society. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2002.0029 |