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“... of any other language’. The precise nature of that process is studied in illuminating detail by Benjamin Harshav, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Yale, in Language in Time of Revolution. Harshav’s book is addressed not to specialists alone but also to readers interested in the formation of ...”

“... for the nation of Eastern European Jewry to survive and continue. As the editor of this volume, Benjamin Harshav, explains, there was a dense network of Jewish activities in Eastern Europe: competing ideologies and political parties, youth movements and sports clubs, literature in several languages, publishing and translations of world literature into ...”

“... parents were Hasidim, though Wullschlager overemphasises his traditional upbringing; as Benjamin Harshav stressed in his translations of Chagall’s Yiddish writings, the family’s religious life was rudimentary. However deeply ingrained, Chagall’s Jewish identity was essentially secular. Remarkably, Feiga-Ita managed to get her son into the ...”