Handbook of Jewish Languages
Handbook of Jewish Languages

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13: 9004359540

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This Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This paperback edition has been updated to include dozens of additional bibliographic references.

Between Sepharad and Jerusalem
Between Sepharad and Jerusalem

Author: Alisa Meyuḥas Ginio

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 900427958X

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Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews expelled from the lands of the Iberian Peninsula in the years 1492-1498, who settled down in the Mediterranean basin. The identifying sign of the Sephardim has been, until the middle of the twentieth century, the language known as Jewish-Spanish. The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the cultural and social changes that characterized the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, because of the crucial changes related to modernization and the political circumstances that came into being at the turn of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the Sephardim lost their unique identity.

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

Author: Benjamin Hary

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1501504630

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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.

New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews
New Perspectives on Judeo-Spanish and the Linguistic History of the Sephardic Jews

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9004685065

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At the intersection of Jewish studies and linguistic research, the essays assembled in this book approach the topic of the languages of Sephardic Jews from different perspectives, spanning chronologically from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on diverse sources – from medical glossaries to inquisition archives, from rabbinic responsa to recordings of today's speakers – the scholars collaborating on this project have endeavoured to reconstruct fragments of a complex and elusive linguistic reality, which over the centuries has been shaped by the historical experience of its speakers. An innovative collection of rigorously conducted synchronic and diachronic studies that contributes to expanding our knowledge and opening new perspectives on crucial issues, such as the effects of contact on the linguistic structures, the possibility of a norm for polycentric languages, the relationship between the lexicon of a language and the vitality of its speech community.

Ysmael’S Poems
Ysmael’S Poems

Author: Ysmael Tisnado

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 1543483992

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My book, Ysmaels Poems, is about adult experiences, family, myself, spirituality, fun, death, life, and going for excursions. It is based on my life and how I see the world. Through each of my varied topics, I learned a lot about life each day. I am learning more from my worldexternal and internal. It is a book on Judaism through my poems, Judeo-Spanish, communing with my ancestors, and appreciating a sunny Southern California day. I am very gregarious, intense, and alive with my poems. I wrote about Old Town San Diego, San Diego, Visions clubhouse, Temecula, National City and Chula Vista, and even Balboa Park or the San Diego Zoo. Sometimes I go to House of Pacific Relations (HPR) with the little cottages such as the House of Scotland, Israel, or the House of France.

2012
2012

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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 3064

ISBN-13: 3110278715

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Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschrifts are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschrifts are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983, more than 659,000 articles from more than 30,500 festschrifts, published between 1977 and 2011, have been catalogued.

The Literature of Al-Andalus
The Literature of Al-Andalus

Author: María Rosa Menocal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0521030234

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The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.