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| #1459503 in Books | 2008-09-16 | 2008-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.90 x1.00 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An intensely personal account|By Katharine Kerr|Ilan Stavans has had personal encounters with many languages in his life. He was born in Mexico City, where he learned Yiddish as well as Spanish. As a young man he tried to live in Israel, learned some Hebrew, decided it wasn't for him -- and eventually ended up in the United States, where he now teaches at a university in Lati|From School Library Journal|In this short, poignant, and thoroughly engaging memoir, Amherst professor and Latin American literary studies scholar Stavans takes us on his own personal journey to understand the reemergence of Hebrew as a vital and necessary step
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Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own forgotten Hebrew as well as the man who helpe...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Resurrecting Hebrew (Jewish Encounters Series) | Ilan Stavans.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
