A History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances

A History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances

Author: Shimeon Brisman

Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780881256581

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This volume, which constitutes the third in the series Jewish Research Literature, is divided into two parts. Part One offers detailed descriptions of the various Judaic dictionaries with biographical information on their compilers, beginning with Rav Saadiah Gaon's early tenth-century Egron and concluding with modern dictionaries compiled in recent years. Bibliographical lists and summaries, arranged chronologically according to date of publication, supplement the text. The narrative is written in nontechnical style, but technical information appears in the footnotes. Part Two, which deals with concordances, citation collections, proverbs, and folk sayings, will appear separately.


Language, Culture, Computation: Computational Linguistics and Linguistics

Language, Culture, Computation: Computational Linguistics and Linguistics

Author: Nachum Dershowitz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13: 3642453279

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This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age. This third part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to language, ranging from linguistics to applications of computation to language, using linguistic tools. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: natural language processing; representing the lexicon; and neologisation.


Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

Author: Guido Mensching

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 3110394154

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This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.


The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book (2 Vols)

Author: Marvin J. Heller

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1605

ISBN-13: 9004186387

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The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.


The Languages of the Jews

The Languages of the Jews

Author: Bernard Spolsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-27

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 110705544X

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


The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean

The Late Medieval Hebrew Book in the Western Mediterranean

Author: Javier del Barco

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-09-29

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9004306102

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This collection takes the Hebrew book as a focal point for exploring the production, circulation, transmission, and consumption of Hebrew texts in the cultural context of the late medieval western Mediterranean. The authors elaborate in particular on questions concerning private vs. public book production and collection; the religious and cultural components of manuscript patronage; collaboration between Christian and Jewish scribes, artists, and printers; and the impact of printing on Iberian Jewish communities. Unlike other approaches that take context into consideration merely to explain certain variations in the history of the Hebrew book from antiquity to the present, the premise of these essays is that context constitutes the basis for understanding practices and processes in late medieval Jewish book culture.


Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book

Author: Marvin J. Heller

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 9004441166

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Articles on early Hebrew printing encompassing title-page motifs and entitling books; authors and places of publication including books opposed to gambling, on philology, and the massacres of tah-ve-tat (1648-48); small diverse places of printing; and on Christian-Hebraism.


Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary

Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary

Author: Tamás Turán

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3110330733

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The Habsburg Empire was one of the first regions where the academic study of Judaism took institutional shape in the nineteenth century. In Hungary, scholars such as Leopold and Immanuel Löw, David Kaufmann, Ignaz Goldziher, Wilhelm Bacher, and Samuel Krauss had a lasting impact on the Wissenschaft des Judentums (“Science of Judaism”). Their contributions to Biblical, rabbinic and Semitic studies, Jewish history, ethnography and other fields were always part of a trans-national Jewish scholarly network and the academic universe. Yet Hungarian Jewish scholarship assumed a regional tinge, as it emerged at an intersection between unquelled Ashkenazi yeshiva traditions, Jewish modernization movements, and Magyar politics that boosted academic Orientalism in the context of patriotic historiography. For the first time, this volume presents an overview of a century of Hungarian Jewish scholarly achievements, examining their historical context and assessing their ongoing relevance.


The Whole World in a Book

The Whole World in a Book

Author: Sarah Ogilvie

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0190913193

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The 19th century saw a new wave of dictionaries, many of which remain household names. Those dictionaries didn't just store words; they represented imperial ambitions, nationalist passions, religious fervor, and utopian imaginings. This volume shows how 19th-century lexicography continues to influence how we speak, write, and think in the 21st century.


A Place for Everything

A Place for Everything

Author: Judith Flanders

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1541675061

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From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification -- Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules -- libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games -- it has remained curiously invisible. With abundant inquisitiveness and wry humor, historian Judith Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. A Times (UK) Best Book of 2020