{"product_id":"jewish-languages-in-historical-perspective-9789004372320","title":"Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJewish 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.    \"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 3-4 (2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Notes on the Contributors    Introduction   Lily Kahn    Part 1: Jewish Languages and Sacred Texts  1 The Aramaic of the Zohar: The Status Quaestionis   Alinda Damsma  2 Translation of the Tanakh into Crimean Karaim: History, Manuscripts, and Language   Henryk Jankowski    Part 2: Jewish Languages in Contact  3 Single-Script Mixed-Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah and Their Sociolinguistic Context   Meira Polliack  4 Yiddish in the Hungarian Setting   Szonja Ráhel Komoróczy    Part 3: Jewish Vernacular Traditions  5 Jewish Berber: A Brief Linguistic Sketch   Rachid Ridouane  6 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 4: The Status of Jewish Languages in the Twenty-First Century  7 Mind the Gap! The Schism between Perceptions of the Yiddish Language and Yiddish Cultural Realities   Helen Beer  8 Ladino: Past and Present   Hilary Pomeroy    Part 5: Theoretical Approaches to Jewish Languages  9 Judeo-Arabic Language or Jewish Arabic Sociolect? Linguistic Terminology between Linguistics and Ideology   Esther-Miriam Wagner  10 Jewish Languages and Their Typology: Issues and Models   Frank Alvarez-Pereyre    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210754285911,"sku":"9789004372320","price":188.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-languages-in-historical-perspective-9789004372320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}