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Jewish Languages from A to Z book cover

1st Edition

Jewish Languages from A to Z

By Aaron D. Rubin, Lily Kahn Copyright 2021
246 Pages 52 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 52 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 52 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 thousand years. The book covers more than 50 different languages and language varieties. These include not only well-known Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino, but also more exotic languages like Chinese, Esperanto,... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

  1. Amharic

  2. Arabic, Medieval

  3. Arabic, Modern

  4. Aramaic, Ancient and Medieval

  5. Aramaic, Modern

  6. Armenian

  7. Catalan

  8. Chinese

  9. English

  10. Esperanto

  11. French

  12. Georgian

  13. German

  14. Greek

  15. Hebrew, Inscriptional

  16. Hebrew, Biblical

  17. Hebrew, Rabbinic and Medieval

  18. Hebrew, Enlightenment

  19. Hebrew, Modern

  20. Hungarian

  21. Israeli Sign Language

  22. Italian

  23. Karaim (and Krymchak)

  24. Ladino (and Spanish)

  25. Latin

  26. Malay

  27. Malayalam

  28. Maltese

  29. Papiamentu (and Other Creoles)

  30. Persian

  31. Polish (and Czech)

  32. Portuguese

  33. Provençal

  34. Russian

  35. Tajik (Bukhari)

  36. Tat (Juhuri)

  37. Turkish (and Uzbek)

  38. Urdu (and Marathi)

  39. Yiddish, Old and Early Modern

  40. Yiddish, Modern Standard

  41. Yiddish, Modern Hasidic

  42. Zulu (Fanagalo)

Bibliography

Biography

Aaron D. Rubin is Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University.

Lily Kahn is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Languages at University College London.

'Finally! A book for the general public about Jewish languages that’s as informative as it is enjoyable... This book is a must-read for anyone interested in languages, Jewish history, or both.'

- Sarah Bunin Benor, Director of the Jewish Language Project and co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Languages

'At last a book on Jewish languages worldwide for curious readers beyond the academy! This book tells us all about not only Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Jewish Persian, but Jewish Provençal and a dictionary in Yiddish of pidgin Zulu for Jews working in early 20th-century South Africa! A buffet in book form.'

- John H McWhorter, Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University

'From Amharic to Zulu, Aaron Rubin and Lily Kahn's delightful new book looks at the linguistic heritage of Jews across the world... Such examples of English written in Hebrew are notably few, particularly considering the language is the most common now spoken among diaspora Jews. For as Aaron D Rubin and Lily Kahn show in their new book, Jewish Languages From A to Z, Jewish communities in the past often transcribed the language of their countries of residence into Hebrew characters.'

- Simon Rocker, How Maimonides is linked to the first mention of pizza, The Jewish Chronicle, www.thejc.com, October 26, 2020

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