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The story of Hebrew / by Glinert, Lewis,author.(CARDINAL)293035;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1. "Let there be Hebrew" -- Chapter 2. Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome -- Chapter 3. Saving the Bible and its Hebrew -- Chapter 4. The Sephardic classical age -- Chapter 5. The other Medieval Hebrews -- The sciences and the sacred -- Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination I: Medieval designs -- Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination, II: From Kabbalists to colonials -- Chapter 7. Can these bones live? Hebrew at the dawn of modernity -- Chapter 8. The Hebrew state.
Subjects: Hebrew language; Hebrew language; Hebrew language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Memory speaks : on losing and reclaiming language and self / by Sedivy, Julie,author.(CARDINAL)865668;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Death -- Dreams -- Duality -- Conflict -- Revival -- Home."As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis"--"As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brain's capacity to learn--and forget--languages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world's less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom."
Subjects: Informational works.; Language attrition.; Second language acquisition.; Language revival.; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics.; Multilingualism.; Multilingual persons.;
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Outwitting history [large print] : the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books / by Lansky, Aaron,1955-(CARDINAL)467636;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature--the physical remnant of Yiddish culture--was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, just twenty-three, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works.
Subjects: Large print books.; Lansky, Aaron, 1955-; National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.); Book collecting.; Yiddish imprints.; Language revival.; Yiddish language; Yiddish language.;
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Outwitting history : the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books / by Lansky, Aaron,1955-(CARDINAL)467636;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316).
Subjects: Lansky, Aaron, 1955-; National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.); Book collecting.; Yiddish imprints.; Language revival.; Yiddish language; Yiddish language.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Rising above : language revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians / by Frey, Benjamin E.,1983-author;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index. Introduction: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- 1. Coming home through language -- 2. Language and relationships -- 3. The piercing of our container via trauma and violence -- 4. Where's the joy? -- 5. Living in a good way -- Appendix A: Recommendations for language reclamation initiatives -- Appendix B: An incomplete list of Cherokee language learning and revitalization resourcesToday there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community members. Rising Above navigates Frey's upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community. In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.
Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Cherokee language; Indians of North America;
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Kneecap [videorecording] / by Peppiatt, Rich,film director,screenwriter.; Birney, Trevor,film producer.; Tarling, Jack,film producer.; Ó Cairealláin, Naoise,actor.; Ó Hannaidh, Liam Óg,actor.; Ó Dochartaigh, J. J.,actor.; Walker, Josie,actor.; British Film Institute,presenter.(CARDINAL)344861; Coimisiún na Meán (Firm),presenter.; DMC Film,presenter.; Fine Point Films,production company.; Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland (Firm),presenter.; Great Point Media,presenter.; Mother Tongues Films,production company.; Naughty Step (Firm),presenter.; Northern Ireland Screen's Irish Language Broadcast and Screen Fund,presenter.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),presenter,publisher.(CARDINAL)282400; TG4 (Television station : Ireland),presenter.; Wildcard (Firm),production company.;
Composer, Michael "Mikey J" Asante, Kneecap ; editor of motion picture work, Julian Ulrichs, Chris Gill ; director of photography, Ryan Kernaghan.Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best, Simone Kirby, Michael Fassbender.When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome the police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant sound whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.MPA rating: R; for pervasive drug content and language, sexual content / nudity, and some violence.English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).Title from disc label.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Teachers; Rap musicians; Irish language; Linguistic minorities; Irish language; Linguistic minorities;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Resurrecting Hebrew / by Stavans, Ilan.(CARDINAL)365637;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Stavans, Ilan; Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922.; Hebrew language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The language of angels : a story about the reinvention of Hebrew / by Michelson, Richard,author.(CARDINAL)746540; Gudeon, Karla,illustrator.(CARDINAL)490169;
Once there was a child without a friend. Ben-Zion's father insisted that his son speak only Hebrew, considered by some as the language of angels. But in the 1880s, the Jewish people who lived in Jerusalem spoke Yiddish or the languages of the places where they grew up. Hebrew hadn't been in everyday use for more than two thousand years, and adults said it could never be revived.690LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922; Hebrew language;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Celtic dawn : a portrait of the Irish literary renaissance / by O'Connor, Ulick.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-398) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; English literature; Authors, Irish; Authors, Irish; Theater; Irish language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Indigenous language revitalization : from boarding schools and code talkers to immersion learning / by Phillips, Katrina M.,author.aut.(CARDINAL)864345;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Discusses how Indigenous linguists and teachers are bringing these languages back to life.8-11.3-6.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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