Languages in Jewish communities, past and present / edited by Benjamin Hary, Sarah Bunin Benor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hary, Benjamin H., editor.

Benor, Sarah, 1975- editor.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 112.

Contributions to the sociology of language ; volume 112

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages--History.

Jews.

Sociolinguistics.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Languages.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 696 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : Walter De Gruyter Inc., [2018]

Summary:

"This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of languages used in 17 Diaspora Jewish communities, along with synthesizing descriptive and theoretical articles about the structure and sociology of languages in these and other communities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Jewish language Varieties In Historical Perspective

Jewish Neo-Aramaic in Kurdistan and Iran p. 9 / Geoffrey Khan

Judeo-Arabic in the Arabic-Speaking World p. 35 / Benjamin Hary

Judeo-Berber in Morocco p. 70 / Joseph Chetrit

Judeo-Italian in Italy p. 94 / Michael Ryzhik

Judeo-Provençal in Southern France p. 129 / George Jochnowitz

Judeo-Spanish throughout the Sephardic Diaspora p. 145 / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald

Judezmo (Ladino/Judeo-Spanish): A Historical and Sociolinguistic Portrait p. 185 / David M. Bunis

Western Yiddish and Judeo-German p. 239 / Jürg Fleischer

Yiddish in Eastern Europe p. 276 / Alexander Beider

Judeo-Tat in the Eastern Caucasus p. 313 / Vitaly Shalem

Jewish Malayalam in Southern India p. 357 / Ophira Gamliel

Part II Jewish Language Varieties In the 20th and 21st Centuries

Jewish Spanish in Buenos Aires and Mexico City p. 383 / Evelyn Dean-Olmsted and Susana Skura

Jewish English in the United States p. 414 / Sarah Bunin Benor

Jewish Swedish in Sweden p. 431 / Patric Joshua Klagsbrun Lebenswerd

Jewish Hungarian in Hungary and Israel p. 453 / Judith Rosenhouse

Haredi Yiddish in Israel and the United States p. 472 / Dalit Assouline

Hebraized Amharic in Israel p. 489 / Anbessa Teferra

Israeli Russian in Israel p. 520 / Renee Perelmutter

Jewish French in Israel p. 544 / Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Judeo-Arabic in the Holy Land and Lebanon p. 569 / Aharon Geva-Kleinberger

Part III Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

Sociolinguistics of Jewish Language Varieties p. 583 / Bernard Spolsky

Uses of Hebrew Script in Jewish Language Varieties p. 602 / Peter T. Daniels

Yiddish, Jewish Russian, and Jewish Lithuanian in the Former Soviet Union p. 627 / Anna Verschik

The Hebrew and Aramaic Component of Judeo-Arabic p. 644 / Yehudit Henshke

A Research Agenda for Comparative Jewish Linguistic Studies p. 672 / Sarah Bunin Benor and Benjamin Hary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501512988

1501512986

OCLC:

1040080117