Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37232-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: IJS Studies in Judaica

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)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Lily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).