Search Results

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages

Download or Read eBook Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages PDF 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.
Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of
Author :
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages : 966
Release :
ISBN-10 : 3447054042
ISBN-13 : 9783447054041
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

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

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

Scroll to top