Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective

Author:   Lily Kahn
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   17
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9789004372320


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 July 2018
Format:   Hardback
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"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)"

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Author:   Lily Kahn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.543kg
ISBN:  

9789004372320


ISBN 10:   9004372326
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Lily Kahn Part 1: Jewish Languages and Sacred Texts 1 The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis  Alinda Damsma 2 Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: History, Manuscripts, and Language  Henryk Jankowski Part 2: Jewish Languages in Contact 3 Single-Script Mixed-Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah and Their Sociolinguistic Context  Meira Polliack 4 Yiddish in the Hungarian Setting  Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy Part 3: Jewish Vernacular Traditions 5 Jewish Berber: A Brief Linguistic Sketch  Rachid Ridouane 6 Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese  Maria Maddalena Colasuonno Part 4: The Status of Jewish Languages in the Twenty-First Century 7 Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities  Helen Beer 8 Ladino: Past and Present  Hilary Pomeroy Part 5: Theoretical Approaches to Jewish Languages 9 Judeo-Arabic Language or Jewish Arabic Sociolect? Linguistic Terminology between Linguistics and Ideology  Esther-Miriam Wagner 10 Jewish Languages and Their Typology: Issues and Models  Frank Alvarez-Pereyre Index

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Lily Kahn, Ph.D. (2008), UCL, is Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at UCL. Publications include A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale (Brill, 2015) and Handbook of Jewish Languages, co-edited with Aaron D. Rubin (Brill, 2016).

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