Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present /

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present / / ed. by Benjamin Hary, Sarah Bunin Benor.

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, structur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Assouline, Dalit,
Beider, Alexander,
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer,
Ben-Rafael, Miriam,
Bunin Benor, Sarah,
Bunis, David M.,
Chetrit, Joseph,
Daniels, Peter T.,
Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn,
Fleischer, Jürg,
Gamliel, Ophira,
Geva-Kleinberger, Aharon,
Hary, Benjamin,
Henshke, Yehudit,
Jochnowitz, George,
Khan, Geoffrey,
Klagsbrun Lebenswerd, Patric Joshua,
Perelmutter, Renee,
Rosenhouse, Judith,
Ryzhik, Michael,
Schwarzwald, Ora Rodrigue,
Shalem, Vitaly,
Skura, Susana,
Spolsky, Bernard,
Teferra, Anbessa,
Verschik, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Benor, Sarah Bunin,
Hary, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 112
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 696 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Jewish Language Varieties in Historical Perspective
  • Jewish Neo-Aramaic in Kurdistan and Iran
  • Judeo-Arabic in the Arabic-Speaking World
  • Judeo-Berber in Morocco
  • Judeo-Italian in Italy
  • Judeo-Provençal in Southern France
  • Judeo-Spanish throughout the Sephardic Diaspora
  • Judezmo (Ladino/Judeo-Spanish): A Historical and Sociolinguistic Portrait
  • Western Yiddish and Judeo-German
  • Yiddish in Eastern Europe
  • Judeo-Tat in the Eastern Caucasus
  • Jewish Malayalam in Southern India
  • Part II: Jewish Language Varieties in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  • Jewish Spanish in Buenos Aires and Mexico City
  • Jewish English in the United States
  • Jewish Swedish in Sweden
  • Jewish Hungarian in Hungary and Israel
  • Haredi Yiddish in Israel and the United States
  • Hebraized Amharic in Israel
  • Israeli Russian in Israel
  • Jewish French in Israel
  • Judeo-Arabic in the Holy Land and Lebanon
  • Part III: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
  • Sociolinguistics of Jewish Language Varieties
  • Uses of Hebrew Script in Jewish Language Varieties
  • Yiddish, Jewish Russian, and Jewish Lithuanian in the Former Soviet Union
  • The Hebrew and Aramaic Component of Judeo-Arabic
  • A Research Agenda for Comparative Jewish Linguistic Studies
  • Index

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