Jewish languages in historical perspective / / edited by Lily Kahn.

• Superior document: IJS studies in Judaica, v. 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Kahn, Lily.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: IJS Studies in Judaica 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on the Contributors --; Introduction /; Jewish Languages and Sacred Texts --; The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis* ** /; Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: History, Manuscripts, and Language /; Jewish Languages in Contact --; Single-Script Mixed-Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah and Their Sociolinguistic Context* /; Yiddish in the Hungarian Setting /; Jewish Vernacular Traditions --; Jewish Berber: A Brief Linguistic Sketch /; Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese /; The Status of Jewish Languages in the Twenty-First Century --; Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities /; Ladino: Past and Present* /; Theoretical Approaches to Jewish Languages --; Judeo-Arabic Language or Jewish Arabic Sociolect? Linguistic Terminology between Linguistics and Ideology /; Jewish Languages and Their Typology: Issues and Models /; Back Matter --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004376585
• ISSN: 1570-1581
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lily Kahn.

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.