Jewish Languages From A To Z

Author : Aaron D. Rubin,Lily Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351043434

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Jewish Languages from A to Z by Aaron D. Rubin,Lily Kahn Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004359543

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Handbook of Jewish Languages by Anonim Pdf

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 : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : 3447054042

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Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages by Paul Wexler Pdf

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 : Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501504631

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Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present by Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor Pdf

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 : Lily Kahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004376588

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Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective by Lily Kahn Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011737041

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Jewish Language Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jewish Language Review Staff,Association for the Study of Jewish Languages
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : 0608187496

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Jewish Language Review by Jewish Language Review Staff,Association for the Study of Jewish Languages Pdf

Author : Joshua a Fishman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004670006

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Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages by Joshua a Fishman Pdf

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027220752

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Yiddish by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow; Status Planning: The Tshernovits Conference of 1908; Stock-taking: Where are we now? Each section is prefaced by an introduction. In addition there are also five papers written in Yiddish. The work emphasises an empirical and theoretical approach to the growing Ultra-Orthodox sector, that until now, has largely been ignored. Fishman's interest in Yiddish (among other Jewish languages) has previously been difficult to access and it is hoped that the appearance of this book will go some way toward alleviating this situation. The volume also includes a statistical appendix bringing together data on Yiddish for the past 100 years from the Czarist Empire, the USSR, Poland, Israel, the USA, and other parts of the world. This extensive and enlightening study should be of interest to sociolinguists and all those engaged in efforts on behalf of small languages everywhere.

Author : Lutz Edzard,Ofra Tirosh-Becker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447117087

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Jewish Languages by Lutz Edzard,Ofra Tirosh-Becker Pdf

This volume on Jewish language varieties not only accords weight to linguistic and cultural analysis but also to extensive text specimens with both interlinear and idiomatic translation. A comprehensive comparative essay by Aharon Maman introduces the volume. The following book sections are ordered according to the linguistic affiliation of the treated language varieties, in the following order: Semitic (Neo-Aramaic and Arabic), Germanic (Yiddish and English), Romance (Judezmo/Ladino, Haketia, Italian, French, and Provencal), Greek, Iranian (early Persian and Juhuri/Judeo-Tat(i)), as well as Turkic (Crimean-Turkic, Krymchak, Karaim, and other varieties). The main criterion for the inclusion of a language (variety) in this volume was the existence of a sizable amount of religious, literary, scholarly, and other text genres in Hebrew characters produced by Jewish authors. All contributions follow a common structural outline - a cultural introduction followed by a grammatical (and lexical) sketch and then text specimens with glosses. Several indices complete the volume. Beyond its obvious function as a scholarly reference tool, the volume has the potential to emerge as a pedagogical textbook for courses covering one or several Jewish language varieties, as well as courses in general linguistics and in languages in contact.

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Yiddish language
ISBN : 0300109601

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History of the Yiddish Language by Max Weinreich Pdf

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 : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107055445

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The Languages of the Jews by Bernard Spolsky Pdf

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : 9004076565

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Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics by Paul Wexler Pdf

Author : Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros,Lúcia Liba Mucznik,José Alberto R. Silva Tavim
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443883207

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In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond by Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros,Lúcia Liba Mucznik,José Alberto R. Silva Tavim Pdf

This book is the result of two scientific encounters hosted by the University of Évora in 2012, with the theme “Muslims and Jews in Portugal and the Diaspora. Identities and Memories (16th–17th centuries)”, and co-financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, and by FEDER, through “Eixo I” of the “Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade” (POFC) of QREN (COMPETE). Beginning with an analysis of the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects of this on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015037044032

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Jewish Language Review by Anonim Pdf