Bridges of Knowledge : Jewish Languages in Cultural Context / edited by Jean Baumgarten, Ruth von Bernuth, and Moshe Lavee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgarten, Jean, editor.

Bernuth, Ruth von, editor.

Lavee, Moshe, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 83.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Study and teaching.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jewish Languages in Cultural Context

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this collaborative volume, the editors examine the role of Judeo-languages in literary, social, religious, and cultural channels of knowledge transfer, particularly in the dissemination of oral and written traditions beyond the core intellectual elite to the secondary Jewish intelligentsia and broader audiences. This phenomenon is evident in Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, and Judeo-Turkish from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The studies in this book present a wide range of manuscripts and printed editions, highlighting the diverse functions and roles of Judeo-languages as vehicles for the distribution, transmission, and mediation of knowledge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Chapter 1

Introduction: Mediating Knowledge in Jewish Languages

Part 1: Translations and Adaptations of Traditional Jewish Sources

Chapter 2: Honor Thy Mother and Other Wisdom: Ben Sira in Yiddish

Chapter 3: “Azoy shraybn di khokhme kabole”: Kabbalah in the Old Yiddish Tikkunei ha-moadim (Fürth, 1725)

Chapter 4: “Re-educating the Jews”: Ladino Rabbinic Works Published in Livorno between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

Part 2: Religious, Cultural, and Social Uses of Jewish Languages

Chapter 5: From Oral Performance to Books: Judeo–Arabic Homilies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

Chapter 6: Yiddish in Jewish Liturgy

Chapter 7: A Paremiological Collection Intersecting Popular and Scholarly Traditions, Oral and Written Transmissions

Chapter 8: Hebrew–Old French Biblical Glossaries as Testimonies of the Jewish Educational Tradition in Medieval Northern France

Part 3: Jewish Vernaculars in Contact

Chapter 9: Yiddish Songs from Prague

Chapter 10: From ‘Jewish Italian’ to Literary Italian: Translations from Hebrew in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 11: Scientific and Philosophical Glossaries in Judeo–Italian: The Case of Ms. Mich. Add. 39 from the Bodleian Library

Chapter 12: The Mystery of the Khaf Sofit: Notes on Judeo–Turkish and the Üstad Newspaper

Part 4: Near and Far in Jewish Travelogues

Chapter 13: A Yiddish Cabinet of Curiosities: Gliles Erets Yisroel and the Early Modern Afterlife of the Medieval Hebrew Travel Book

Chapter 14: The Travels of Israel J. Benjamin, Algiers, 1854: The First Translation from ‘Modern’ Hebrew into Arabic

Back Matter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-73082-6

OCLC:

1537018417

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004730823 DOI