Author: Joshua A. FishmanPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004072374
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages
Author: Joshua A. FishmanPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004072374
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages
Author: Joshua a FishmanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004670009
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Author: Benjamin HaryPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501504630
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.
Reversing Language Shift
Author: Joshua A. FishmanPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853591211
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.
Kafka's Jewish Languages
Author: David SuchoffPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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 Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer into focus. David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish sources crucial to the development of Kafka's style, the book demonstrates the intimate relationship between the author's Jewish modes of expression and the larger literary significance of his works. Suchoff shows how "The Judgment" evokes Yiddish as a language of comic curse and examines how Yiddish, African American, and culturally Zionist voices appear in the unfinished novel, Amerika. In his reading of The Trial, Suchoff highlights the black humor Kafka learned from the Yiddish theater, and he interprets The Castle in light of Kafka's involvement with the renewal of the Hebrew language. Finally, he uncovers the Yiddish and Hebrew meanings behind Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-Folk" and considers the recent legal case in Tel Aviv over the possession of Kafka's missing manuscripts as a parable of the transnational meanings of his writing.
Handbook of Jewish Languages
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004359540
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
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.
Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics
Author: Paul WexlerPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004076563
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages
Author: Paul WexlerPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447054041
Category : Hebrew language
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
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.
The Languages of the Jews
Author: Bernard SpolskyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110705544X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.
Author: Joshua A. Fishman