Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of
Author :
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages : 966
Release :
ISBN-10 : 3447054042
ISBN-13 : 9783447054041
Rating : 4/5 (041 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages by : Paul Wexler

Download or read book Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages written by Paul Wexler and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together 34 articles that were published between 1964 and 2003 on Judaized forms of Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (including Modern Hebrew and Yiddish, two Slavic languages "relexified" to Hebrew and German, respectively), Spanish and Semitic Hebrew (including Ladino - the Ibero-Romance relexification of Biblical Hebrew) and Karaite. The motivations for reissuing these articles are the convenience of having thematically similar topics appear together in the same venue and the need to update the interpretations, many of which have radically changed over the years. As explained in a lengthy new preface and in notes added to the articles themselves, the impetus to create strikingly unique Jewish ethnolects comes not so much from the creativity of the Jews but rather from non- Jewish converts to Judaism, in search (often via relexification) of a unique linguistic analogue to their new ethnoreligious identity. The volume should be of interest to students of relexification, of the Judaization of non-Jewish languages, and of these specific languages.


Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages Related Books

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of
Language: en
Pages: 966
Authors: Paul Wexler
Categories: Hebrew language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The present volume brings together 34 articles that were published between 1964 and 2003 on Judaized forms of Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portugues
Jewish Languages from A to Z
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Aaron D. Rubin
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past three thousan
German as a Jewish Problem
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Marc Volovici
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-14 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different—often conflicting—historical
Kafka's Jewish Languages
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: David Suchoff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-29 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with
Handbook of Jewish Languages
Language: en
Pages: 780
Authors:
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-17 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino) , and Jewish var