Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective

Leiden: Brill, 2018. First edition. Octavo. xi, (1(, 247, (1)pp. Index. Text in English with some Hebrew Yiddish. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, spine lettered in white. Illustrated with occasional photos of manuscript fragments, most in color. A fine, as new copy.

"On top of Brill’s Journal of Jewish Languages and a number of recent publications providing systematic overviews of Jewish languages as well as related theoretical discussions, this volume is a valuable addition to the increasing interest in Jewish languages and linguistics." -Wout van Bekkum, Groningen, Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI

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. (Publisher)

Contents: Part I. Jewish languages and sacred texts -- The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis / Alinda Damsma -- Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: history, manuscripts, and language / Henryk Jankowsky -- Part II. Jewish languages in contact -- Single-script mixed-code literary sources from the Cairo Genizah and their sociolinguistic context / Meira Polliack -- Yiddish in the Hungarian setting / Sonja Ráhel Komoróczy -- Part III. Jewish vernacular traditions -- Jewish Berber: a brief sociolinguistic sketch / Rachid Ridouane -- Modern Judeo-Italian in the light of Italian dialectology and Jewish interlinguistics through three case studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese / Maria Maddalena Colasuonno -- Part IV. 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 / Helen Beer -- Ladino: past and present / Hilary Pomeroy -- Part V. Theoretical approaches to Jewish languages. -- Judeo-Arabic langauge or Jewish Arabic sociolect? Linguistic terminology between linguistics and ideology / Esther-Miriam Wagner -- Jewish languages and their typology: issues and models / Frank Alvarez-Pereyre. (OCLC)

Volume 17 of the Brill series, "IJS Studies in Judaica." Item #52178
ISBN: 9789004372320

Price: $125.00

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