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The Languages of Jerusalem - Spolsky, Bernard, and Cooper, Robert L
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The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the two official languages of Israel--Arabs and Jews. The authors begin with a sociolinguistic sketch of the Old City in the present day. They then provide a historical background to their field study, discussing Jewish multilingualism from the period of the Second Temple until modern times, the sociolinguistics of revival and ...

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The Languages of Jerusalem 1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198239086

Hardcover