Multilingual Israel?: Old Ideologies and New Realities

Engages directly with the delicate intersections between homogenizing state policies and the extraordinary linguistic diversity on the ground.

This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots community initiatives. The first section ('Ideologies') examines the persistence of monolingual Hebrew language ideologies and state efforts to regulate Yiddish, Arabic and other la...