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Jewish Languages from A to Z
Author | : Aaron D. Rubin,Lily Kahn |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2020-09-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781351043434 |
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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.
The Languages of the Jews
Author | : Bernard Spolsky |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781107055445 |
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A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.
Handbook of Jewish Languages
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004359543 |
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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.
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Author | : Anita Norich,Joshua L Miller |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780472053018 |
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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.
Jewish and Non Jewish Creators of Jewish Languages
Author | : Paul Wexler |
Publsiher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Hebrew language |
ISBN | : 3447054042 |
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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.
Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publsiher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9004072373 |
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The Languages of Diaspora and Return
Author | : Bernard Spolsky |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2017-01-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004340244 |
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Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.
The Languages of Jerusalem
Author | : Bernard Spolsky,Robert Leon Cooper |
Publsiher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UVA:X002047421 |
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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.