Languages In Jewish Communities Past And Present

Author : Benjamin Hary,Sarah Bunin Benor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Aaron D. Rubin,Lily Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : 42,8 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 : Lily Kahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9004072373

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Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Author : Max Weinreich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : 54,6 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 : Anita Norich,Joshua L Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472053018

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Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures by Anita Norich,Joshua L Miller Pdf

This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.

Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Keren Eva Fraiman,Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000850321

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The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century by Keren Eva Fraiman,Dean Phillip Bell Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century is a cutting-edge volume that addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way. It introduces readers to the complexity of Judaism as it has developed and continues to develop throughout the 21st century through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances. Within these sections, international contributors examine central issues, topics, and debates, including: individual and collective identity; globalization and localization; Jewish demography; diversity, denominations, and pluralism; interreligious relations; political orientations; community organization; family and gender; the Bible and Talmud today; Jewish philosophy and authority in Jewish thought; digital Judaism; antisemitism; Jewish spirituality and rituals; memory; language; religious education; material culture, literature, music, and art; approaches to the environment; and contemporary Zionism and Israel. The handbook also includes an extensive bibliography to help orient readers to the most important and leading work in the field. The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Jewish studies. It will also be useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history, as well as Jewish professionals and lay leaders.

Author : Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052092116X

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Languages of Community by Hillel J. Kieval Pdf

With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.

Author : Hasia R. Diner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190240943

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The Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora by Hasia R. Diner Pdf

"The reality of diaspora has shaped Jewish history, its demography, its economic relationships, and the politics which that impacted the lives of Jews with each other and with the non-Jews among whom they lived. Jews have moved around the globe since the beginning of their history, maintaining relationships with their former Jewish neighbors, who had chosen other destinations and at the same time forging relationships in their new homes with Jews from widely different places of origin"--

Author : Hillel J. Kieval,Assistant Professor of History and Fellow of the Tauber Institute Hillel J Kieval
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520214101

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Languages of Community by Hillel J. Kieval,Assistant Professor of History and Fellow of the Tauber Institute Hillel J Kieval Pdf

The author examines the Jewish experience of the past two hundred years in Bohemia and Moravia (the present day Czech Republic), including history, myth, demograohics, biography, culture and politics.

Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : 9004076565

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Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics by Paul Wexler Pdf

Author : Bernard Spolsky,Robert Leon Cooper
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X002047421

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The Languages of Jerusalem by Bernard Spolsky,Robert Leon Cooper Pdf

The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the two official languages of Israel--Arabs and Jews. The authors begin with a sociolinguistic sketch of the Old City in the present day. They then provide a historical background to their field study, discussing Jewish multilingualism from the period of the Second Temple until modern times, the sociolinguistics of revival and spread of Hebrew. They go on to develop a model of the rules of language choice which arises from their social context. The authors demonstrate that, because of the close association between language use and social structure, the study of language use in a multilingual society is at the same time both powerful and delicate method of studying the dynamics of group interactions.