Handbook of Jewish Languages : Revised and Updated Edition

Aaron D. Rubin Lily Kahn

ISBN 10: 9004345779 / ISBN 13: 9789004345775

Published by Brill Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handbook of Jewish Languages : Revised and Updated Edition
• Publisher: Brill Sep 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004345779
• ISBN 13: 9789004345775
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 155H x 42D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 42 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1078 grams

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Synopsis

This Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages. This paperback edition has been updated to include dozens of additional bibliographic references.

About the Author

Lily Kahn, Ph.D. (2008), UCL, is Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Languages at that university. Publications include The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew (2009), Colloquial Yiddish (2012), and A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale (2015).

Aaron D. Rubin, Ph.D. (2004), Harvard University, is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies, Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University. Author of numerous books and articles, he was also an associate editor of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (2013).

Contributors are: Sarah Bunin Benor, Siam Bhayro, David Bunis, Habib Borjian, Joseph Chetrit, Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, Stephen Dörr, Reuven Enoch, Steven E. Fassberg, Ophira Gamliel, Brad Sabin Hill, Henryk Jankowski, George Jochnowitz, Lily Kahn, Geoffrey Khan, Marc Kiwitt, P. Joshua Klagsbrun Lebenswerd, Julia Krivoruchko, Laurent Mignon, Judith Rosenhouse, Aaron D. Rubin, Susana Skura, Adam Strich, Devon Strolovitch, Anbessa Teferra, and Anna Verschik.