Jewish languages : text specimens, grammatical, lexical, and cultural sketches / edited by Lutz Edzard and Ofra Tirosh-Becker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edzard, Lutz, editor.

Tirosh-Becker, Ofra, editor.

Series:

Porta linguarum orientalium ; neue Serie, 28.

Porta linguarum orientalium. Neue Serie ; Bd. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages.

Jews.

Physical Description:

777 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.

Summary:

This volume on Jewish language varieties not only accords weight to linguistic and cultural analysis but also to extensive text specimens with both interlinear and idiomatic translation. A comprehensive comparative essay by Aharon Maman introduces the volume. The following book sections are ordered according to the linguistic affiliation of the treated language varieties, in the following order: Semitic (Neo-Aramaic and Arabic), Germanic (Yiddish and English), Romance (Judezmo/Ladino, Haketia, Italian, French, and Provençal), Greek, Iranian (early Persian and Juhuri/Judeo-Tat(i)), as well as Turkic (Crimean-Turkic, Krymchak, Karaim, and other varieties). The main criterion for the inclusion of a language (variety) in this volume was the existence of a sizable amount of religious, literary, scholarly, and other text genres in Hebrew characters produced by Jewish authors. All contributions follow a common structural outline a cultural introduction followed by a grammatical (and lexical) sketch and then text specimens with glosses. Several indices complete the volume.

Contents:

I. Methodology. Aharon Maman: What is a Jewish language?

II. Semitic. Geoffrey Khan: Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Lutz Edzard: Classical Judeo-Arabic

Lutz Edzard: Iraqi Judeo-Arabic

Ori Shachmon: The Jewish varieties of Yemeni Arabic

Gabriel M. Rosenbaum: Modern Spoken Egyptian Judeo-Arabic

Ofra Tirosh-Becker: North-African Judeo-Arabic

III. Germanic. Lutz Edzard: Yiddish

Sarah Bunin Benor: Written Jewish English

IV. Romance. David M. Bunis: Judezmo/Ladino/Judeo-Spanish

Yaakov Bentolila: Haketia

the Judeo-Spanish of North-Africa

Michael Ryzhik: Judeo-Italian

Alexandra B. Edzard: Judeo-French

Cyril Aslanov: Judeo-Provençal

V. Greek. Julia G. Krivoruchko: Judeo-Greek

VI. Iranian. Ludwig Paul: Early Judeo-Persian

Dan Shapira: Juhuri / Judeo-Tat(i) / the Language of the Mountain Jews

VII. Turkic. Dan Shapira: Judeo-Turkic languages and dialects: Judeo-Crimean-Turkic, Krymchak, Karaim, and other varieties

Index of Hebrew Bible, Mishna, and Talmud passages

Index of language groups, languages, dialects, and varieties

Index of countries, regions, and cities

Index of groups and persons

Index of linguistic subjects

Index of cultural/religious and historical subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783447117081

3447117087

OCLC:

1285490979