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Babel in Zion : Jews, nationalism, and language diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
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- Creator
- Liora R. Halperin
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300197488, 0300197489
- OCLC
- ocn894743159
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Languages of leisure in the home, the coffeehouse, and the cinema -- Peddlers, traders, and the languages of commerce -- Clerks, translators, and the languages of bureaucracy -- Zion in Babel: the Yishuv in its Arabic-speaking context -- Hebrew education between East and West: foreign-language instruction in Zionist schools -- Conclusion: the persistence of Babel