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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004359543
This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.
Author : Lily Kahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004376588
Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective is devoted to the diverse array of spoken and written language varieties that have been employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It focuses on the following five key themes: Jewish languages in dialogue with sacred Jewish texts, Jewish languages in contact with the co-territorial non-Jewish languages, Jewish vernacular traditions, the status of Jewish languages in the twenty-first century, and theoretical issues relating to Jewish language research. This volume includes case studies on a wide range of Jewish languages both historical and modern and devotes attention to lesser known varieties such as Jewish Berber, Judeo-Italian, and Karaim in addition to the more familiar Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, and Ladino. "On top of Brill’s Journal of Jewish Languages and a number of recent publications providing systematic overviews of Jewish languages as well as related theoretical discussions, this volume is a valuable addition to the increasing interest in Jewish languages and linguistics." -Wout van Bekkum, Groningen, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI 3-4 (2019)
Author : Aaron D. Rubin,Lily Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351043434
Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past three thousand years. The book covers more than 50 different languages and language varieties. These include not only well-known Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, but also more exotic languages like Chinese, Esperanto, Malayalam, and Zulu, all of which have a fascinating Jewish story to be told. Each chapter presents the special features of the language variety in question, a discussion of the history of the associated Jewish community, and some examples of literature and other texts produced in it. The book thus takes readers on a stimulating voyage around the Jewish world, from ancient Babylonia to 21st-century New York, via such diverse locations as Tajikistan, South Africa, and the Caribbean. The chapters are accompanied by numerous full-colour photographs of the literary treasures produced by Jewish language-speaking communities, from ancient stone inscriptions to medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary novels and newspapers. This comprehensive survey of Jewish languages is designed to be accessible to all readers with an interest in languages or history, regardless of their background—no prior knowledge of linguistics or Jewish history is assumed.
Author : Stefan Weninger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251586
The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107055445
A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.
Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : 3447054042
The present volume brings together 34 articles that were published between 1964 and 2003 on Judaized forms of Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (including Modern Hebrew and Yiddish, two Slavic languages "relexified" to Hebrew and German, respectively), Spanish and Semitic Hebrew (including Ladino - the Ibero-Romance relexification of Biblical Hebrew) and Karaite. The motivations for reissuing these articles are the convenience of having thematically similar topics appear together in the same venue and the need to update the interpretations, many of which have radically changed over the years. As explained in a lengthy new preface and in notes added to the articles themselves, the impetus to create strikingly unique Jewish ethnolects comes not so much from the creativity of the Jews but rather from non- Jewish converts to Judaism, in search (often via relexification) of a unique linguistic analogue to their new ethnoreligious identity. The volume should be of interest to students of relexification, of the Judaization of non-Jewish languages, and of these specific languages.
Author : Martin Goodman,Jeremy Cohen,David Sorkin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199280320
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.
Author : Nadia Valman,Laurence Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135048549
The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman,Ofelia García,Oxford University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9780195374926
This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity.
Author : Jewish Language Review Staff,Association for the Study of Jewish Languages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : 0608187496
Author : Michael Tilly,Burton L. Visotzky
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783170325883
Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume III completes this ambitious project with profound chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and on Judaism and inter-faith relations.
Author : Kalman Dubov
Publisher : Kalman Dubov
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
On 5 December 1496, King Manuel I signed the edict of expulsion affecting all Jews in Portugal, effective in 1497. In 1536, the Portuguese Inquisition was established, ending in 1821. These 324 years were centuries of unremitting difficulty for Jews, in Portugal itself as well as in any territory governed by Portugal. In 2015, Portugal offered dual nationality to Jews who had a connection to the country, with a path to citizenship. Portuguese requirements for citizenship differed significantly from a similar offer by Spain, making the Portuguese pathway, simpler and less complicated. This volume discusses my family's narrative showing my connection to Portugal and how I met each of the requirements for citizenship.
Author : Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504631
This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.
Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300108877
Max Weinreich's History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship and is the only comprehensive scholarly account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. A monumental, definitive work, History of the Yiddish Language demonstrates the integrity of Yiddish as a language, its evolution from other languages, its unique properties, and its versatility and range in both spoken and written form. Originally published in 1973 in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and partially translated in 1980, it is now being published in full in English for the first time. In addition to his text, Weinreich's copious references and footnotes are also included in this two-volume set.
Author : Ronald L. Eisenberg
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589797291
The vocabulary of Judaism includes religious terms, customs, Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish terms, terms related to American Jewish life and the State of Israel. All are represented in this new guide, with easy to read explanation and cross-references.