Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

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.

About the author

Benjamin Hary, NYU Tel Aviv, Israel; Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College, USA

Product details

• Assisted by: Sarah Bunin Benor (Editor), Bunin Benor (Editor), Bunin Benor (Editor), Sarah Bunin Benor (Editor), Benjami Hary (Editor), Benjamin Hary (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781501512988
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1298-8
• No. of pages: 696
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1144 g
• Illustrations: 15 b/w ill., 27 b/w tbl.
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language; Contributions to the Sociology of Language (CSL); Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]; Contributions to the Sociology of Language; Contributions to the Sociology; ISSN; Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 112
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics